TAKING OUT the trash
According to The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), a staggering eight million metric tons of plastic end up in our oceans every year. The environmental consequences are dire: annually, plastic pollution accounts for the death of over a million sea birds and 100 000 marine mammals.
South Africa is one of the world’s top tourist destinations, but we’ve also earned a ranking we can’t be quite as proud of: we are at number 11 of the 20 countries responsible for releasing the most plastic into the sea. Plastic waste accounts for 94 percent of all our beach pollution.
The elimination
