Durban just picked up an award as the Greenest City in the world - but when it rains the beaches look like plastic waste dumps

The city says it has employed additional staff to assist in central clean-ups to mop up...

Shocking footage caught tons of plastic crashing in the waves off Durban following heavy rains

After heavy rain tons of plastic was sent downstream to crash in the waves off the Umgeni...

A South African company is turning discarded plastic bottles found on beaches into boardshorts – and they’re really comfy

If you didn’t know they were made from plastic, you wouldn’t be able to guess.

Clicks, Food Lovers Market, Pick n Pay, Spar, Shoprite, and Woolworths are all dropping the confusing recycling info on their packaging – here’s how their new unified approach will look

New labels will read simply ‘Recycled’ or ‘Not Recycled’, dropping a complicated system...

Watch: Foreign trash 'like treasure' in Indonesia's plastics village

For the people of Bangun trash equals cash.

Soon there won't be any plastic straws at the V&A Waterfront

Of the V&A’s 84 food and beverage tenants 46 use plastic straws.

Plastic bags have now been banned at these Woolworths stores in Gauteng and KZN

Since November last year, the company has now sold 110,000 R5 black fabric bags.