The plastics industry has had zero new responses in 25 years to the global rebellion against the impact of their mostly toxic products on people and the planet. Read more in the letters to the editor.
campaign in schools? Not a single piece of plastic was recycled through this multimillion-rand mechanism, as confirmed to the portfolio committee in Parliament.
What will the deposit be on a bag of sweets that costs R2? Only meaningful and substantial deposits work. A recent study confirms the negative impact of plastics on the global ocean economy alone is between $500-billion and $2 500-billion annually, compared to the worth of the global plastics industry, which was $522.66-billion in 2017. Imagine the losses to the system including extraction, processing, air and land-based pollution, and the longevity of the material? It is time to halt hidden and externalised subsidies to a highly problematic material.
Entrepreneurs are no different. Business’s pace is now dizzying. The fourth industrial revolution has increased the appetite to compete and the pressure to flaunt “success”.
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