NGO BreakFreeFromPlastic has named the top 10 global plastic polluters - no surprise that again the world's biggest soft drinks companies lead the list. This op-ed article from FastCompany.com.
A passion for environmental sustainability recently bagged a second-year Chemical Engineering student at Stellenbosch University (SU) a substantial cash prize - and there appears to be significant commercial interest and potential for her edible straws.
Britain is the latest country to join the fad for banning plastic straws. This is a meaningless but annoying gesture to appease environmentalists, writes Daily Maverick opinionista, Ivo Vegter, in this thought-provoking article.
Two of the world’s biggest water companies are thinking outside the bottle as environmental campaigners and consumers execrate the enormous amount of plastic waste the industry produces.
It is time to find truth and balance in the myriad calls for plastics to be replaced with alternatives or degradable versions. If we don’t, we risk setting policies, formulating regulations, enacting legislation and investing in technologies that will do more harm than good, asserts SA National Bottled Water Association executive director, Charlotte Metcalf.
With the war on single-use plastic raging, there's growing interest in alternative water systems - to wit PepsiCo's recent purchase of SodaStream - and now comes news of Mitte, a German startup with a ‘first of its kind’ smart home water system.