MY TAKE. In their manifestos am not hearing how they will conserve the environment; issues, like increasing tree cover, fighting plastic pollution, improving waste management, and addressing impacts of climate change, aren’t significantly being featured….will these very important life issues be neglected and put aside as they have in previous…

Interview with Billy Lombe, an award-winning Zambian sustainability practitioner and environmentalist. What inspires you? I am inspired when I see activists celebrating their victories in fighting against injustices. I am inspired by our ability to connect our small efforts to create a meaningful Global change. …

To end plastic pollution The United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA 5) endorsed a historic resolution that will forge an international legally binding treaty by 2024. Interview with Betterman Musasia, a sustainable public sanitation advocate and the Founder and Patron of Clean Up Kenya Organization based in Nairobi, Kenya. Who is Betterman Musasia? I’m a sustainable public sanitation advocate based in Nairobi, the Founder and Patron of Clean Up Kenya and previously, the organization’s…

‘Government should regulate the industry and hold producers responsible for the products they produce’ Davina Ngei Interview with Davina Ngei, Communications Volunteer, The FlipFlopi Project Who is Davina Ngei? Haha…that’s a loaded question. I’m a Kenyan and an East African, concerned with the state of my country and my region. Over the last few years, I’ve grown an interest…

‘’The volume of plastic waste produced per year is jumping up in Africa due to the perception of sodas as a “lifestyle choice” Interview with Cameron Smith, Founder of Unwaste.io, UK based social enterprise. Tell me little bit about yourself. I was born and brought up in Scotland, UK. As a young child, the UK was going through a public services…

PICTURES: Lake Baringo rising water levels; Impact of Climate Change Climate change has resulted to extreme weather conditions that have triggered an estimated 30 million displacements all over the world with the global south being the hardest hit. Experts are warning that heating above 1.5 degrees Celsius will be catastrophic…

How has environmental injustice affected you? It made me an activist, without environmental Injustice I would be an average woman working and supporting her family. …

Plastic pollution is not a consumer problem; it is a producer problem. The Plastic Industry has been very efficient at perpetuating a flawed narrative blaming the consumers for the plastic pollution problem and running away from responsibility. If we are to effectively address the problem of plastic pollution, we must…

Cocacola shift from green to clear plastic bottles for its Sprite drink brand is a good move. The green bottle was problematic to recycle and often ended up polluting the environment. The sure way to effectively promote recycling is really adopting bottle deposit and return schemes (DRS). Without bottle deposit & return schemes only a small percentage of plastic bottles will be recycled, the rest going to the landfill, that’s not what we want. We need all plastic bottles recycled. I hope Cocacola and other beverage companies will listen and embrace DRS. This will come along way at reducing plastic waste ending up and polluting the environment. Even with Extended producer responsibility at play, DRS would be an efficient way to manage plastic bottles.