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Wednesday, February 19, 2025

South African Plastics Pact welcomed

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The City of Cape Town has become the first municipality, not only in Africa, but also the World, to sign up to the Plastics Pact. Spearheaded by the World Wide Fund for Nature, the pact aims to change the way plastic products and packaging are designed, used and re-used, to prevent plastics from ending up in the environment.

The pact will see a boost in cross-border collaboration to fight plastic-pollution, between South Africa and its regional and international neighbours.

According to Green Cape – the South African organisation responsible for managing and delivering the guidelines of the agreement – the initiative will encourage participants to help keep “plastics in the economy, and out of the environment”.  The pact was launched here in Cape Town by the W.W.F. this week, with hopes to reduce South Africa’s plastic-footprint.

 

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