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Street cleaners collect plastic waste separately for local recycling and trash on the occasion of World Environment Day in Johannesburg. (Photo by Ihsaan Haffejee/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
CIRCULAR ECONOMY

Plastics industry ‘unduly influences SA’s global plastic treaty’

South Africa is a primary plastic producing country with significant imports of primary plastic for local manufacturing

  • Sheree Bega
12 min read
Plastic is useful; it can be moulded into different forms for a variety of uses. It is also fairly cheap to make. But its harms are ubiquitous. (Sustainable Seas Trust)
COLUMNS

Global plastic pollution treaty talks to take shape in South Korea

Plastic is a useful product but it causes immense environmental problems

  • Ozayr Patel
4 min read
Stuck: The department of forestry, fisheries and the environment does not support establishing a new multilateral environmental agreement on plastics, according to a leaked document, and to the dismay of environmentalists. Photo: Paul Botes
ALBI MODISE

Plastic: South Africa is 11th-biggest litterbug

The country risks ‘pariah status’ for approach to global plastic waste crisis

  • Sheree Bega
6 min read