New calls have been made for South Africa to join other African countries, most recently in Tanzania, which have pledged to ban single-use plastics … while the mountains of plastic waste accumulate on the only and emblematic beach in Durban after the devastating floods at KZN this week, killing 60 people and more than 1,000 displaced people.
Tragically, some of the things that are being washed belong to residents’ belongings from huts that have collapsed in the rain and mud avalanches, but these...