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Circular Economies: Working like nature for nature

Photo credits: PETCO/Fiona MacPherson Infographics have credits at bottom of them. By Stefanie Swanepoel Director: The Beach Co-opWe live in a throw-away culture. People throw away about 3.5 million tons of waste a day – an estimated 880 000 tons of this is plastic. Businesses…
Stefanie Swanepoel
July 21, 2019
Plastic Free July 2019CleanupsEvents

Plastic Free July 2019

Photographer: Romano Fortuin for LCA Spark TalksThe Plastic Free July campaign originated in Western Australia in 2011 and has grown from a very small number of participants to millions of people acting in more than 170 countries. The Plastic Free Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation, manages…
Aaniyah Omardien
July 1, 2019
Lessons from the Dirty DozenTalks

Lessons from the Dirty Dozen

By Prof. Peter Ryan - Scientific Advisor of The Beach Co-opI’ve been monitoring beach litter since the 1980s trying to find out what impact, if any, ingested plastic had on seabirds. My research was prompted by the growing number of records of plastic being found…
Aaniyah Omardien
June 27, 2019
EventsTalks

The Man from One Horse Town

This past Sunday Endless Daze Festival and The Beach Co-op hosted a beach cleanup at Mouille Point. The Beach Co-op goes beyond just cleaning the beach, they also collect data and use a methodology called the Dirty Dozen which was developed by Prof Peter Ryan…
Aaniyah Omardien
September 25, 2018
TIDAL - A documentary featuring Lisa BeasleyScreenings

Tidal

We are so excited about the release of this documentary - take a deep breath - it will only be out on the 26th October and to a closed audience...but we are working on screening it to a broader audience, so stay tuned. The documentary…
Aaniyah Omardien
September 5, 2018
Spring Cleaning 2018 with The Beach Co-opCleanups

Spring Cleaning 2018

We began International Coastal Cleanup month with TWO cleanups on the 1st day of Spring - here’s to a month of spring cleaning! The ‘Clean Diver’ cleanup was a combined beach and harbour cleanup at Kalk Bay harbour. You could either join the dive team…
Aaniyah Omardien
September 3, 2018