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Greenpeace Africa Reacts to Alarming UN Plastic Report Findings
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) launched a scaithing report about plastic and environmental inequality, which shows how countries within the Global South are being force-fed plastic pollution by wealthy countries.
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Greenpeace Africa reacts to strict measures against water sachets announced in Kinshasa
PRESS RELEASEKinshasa’s governor, Mr. Gentiny Ngobila, announced new measures last Friday to prosecute all sale or production of single-use plastic water sachets in the capital city
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Video: Greenpeace Plastic Lead exposes plastic plight of his community
Award-winning activist and documentarian Angelo Louw welcomed the world to his childhood neighbourhood in an online video, where he spoke about the impact of plastic pollution and the critical role that people of colour play in the climate justice movement.
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‘We treat human beings like waste by ignoring or brutalising them’
Informal communities that rely on the collection and sale of recyclable waste for survival are under threat from all sides. Marius Sullivan explores the fragile existence of the ‘Bagerezi’ in Tshwane
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Greenpeace and Secret Sunrise Dance Into #PlasticFreeSeptember
Greenpeace Africa is collaborating with Secret Sunrise to sensitise people on the impact of plastic pollution through a language cutting across all boundaries: Dance!
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Greenpeace Africa Welcomes Mozambique’s Plan to Ban Plastic Bags
Mozambican Minister of Land and Environment Ivete Maibasse has announced plans to submit a law aiming to ban the use of plastic bags in the country as an effort to reduce harmful practices to public health, infrastructures and the environment
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Recycling is a “false solution” to plastic pollution
Greenpeace Africa Plastic Campaigner Amos Wemanya explains why recycling is a “false solution” to Africa’s plastic pollution crisis
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Health & the Reuse Revolution: How governments and corporations can think beyond plastic to a green and just future
Over the last few weeks, we’ve seen local and global governments, mobilise resources and public funds to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s been encouraging to see the pace at which…
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SUPPORT RESTAURANTS THAT CHOOSE TO REUSE
Many of our favourite restaurants are overrun with single-use plastics. The drinks come with plastic straws, the food comes with plastic cutlery, and our leftovers are placed in styrofoam boxes…
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Reusables are just as safe: The Covid-19 pandemic is accelerating single-use plastic pollution
More than 125 health experts, including virologists, epidemiologists, emergency room doctors, and specialists in public health and food packaging safety, have signed a statement on the safety of reusables during the Covid-19 pandemic.