Steve Cohen

Environmental activist and founder of Durbanites Solving Plastic Pollution, an advocacy campaign seeking sustainable solutions to pollution in our waterways.

[Steve Cohen @Clean_Durban]

@5gyres @NoPlasticStraws @flyLAXairport @ortambo_int you can do it too.

[Steve Cohen @Clean_Durban]

All industry efforts to mitigate plastic bottle pollution have failed. Time for innovation: 20-cent deposit on every plastic bottle sold. Plastic producer supply chains must be expanded to collect used bottles. #depositreturnsystem #reverselogistics #boomerangeffect #epr

[Plastic Pollutes @PlasticPollutes]

Plastic pollution can't be ignored. There will be more plastic than fish by weight in the ocean by 2050. MORE PLASTIC THAN FISH! 🐠🥤🥤🥤#BreakFreeFromPlastic #WorldOceansWeek

[Steve Cohen @Clean_Durban]

https://t.co/eeHAkw3tLe

[Jan Dell🌻The Last Beach Cleanup @WasteCounter]

Great read on today’s “recycling day”

@circulareconomy of plastic is toxic hoax created by @McKinsey & promoted by industry-sponsored EMF. NPE Economic premise blatantly false & toxicity of recycled plastic ☠️ completely ignored

EMF = Toxics Deniers

https://t.co/sGeoNPfVbM

[Steve Cohen @Clean_Durban]

World Recycling Day | SA urged to recycle https://t.co/GGI0rt8Jvw
@DanoneSa and #etv peddling the myth that household recycling will on its own solve the global crisis of plastic pollution.
@GarethEdwardsSA says 1 plastic brick at a time can pave the way for the environment 🥴

[Steve Cohen @Clean_Durban]

Sad that there was no appetite in SA port authorities for this and other technologies such as the #trashwheel. Many proposals to help have been submitted.

[Steve Cohen @Clean_Durban]

WATCH | South African entrepreneur develops robot that can collect 21 000 plastic bottles a day https://t.co/lSCrTWpu80

[Steve Cohen @Clean_Durban]

@futurelifeza @LifesavingSA @AdoptariverS Last weekend

[Steve Cohen @Clean_Durban]

@futurelifeza trying to increase sales by creating a single use, unrecyclable on-the-go sachets and marketing it kids on the beach. And no bins. Please stay away from our beaches! #cleanseas #saynotosingleuseplastic #byo @LifesavingSA @AdoptariverS

[Steve Cohen @Clean_Durban]

@GatewayUmhlanga @KauaiGlobal Well done @KauaiGlobal! Now why not implement the most effective initiative: use your glass cups for sit-in smoothies and juices as default, with plastic cups only on request? #reuse #zerowaste #plasticpollution

[Steve Cohen @Clean_Durban]

Shout out to @CityLodgeHotels for fighting the scourge of single use water bottles in the hospitality sector with fantastic hydration stations! #refillrevolution #byobottle

[Steve Cohen @Clean_Durban]

Fans basic human right to hydrate trampled last night at the #SA20 DSG v JSK match played in typical hot and humid conditions at Kingsmead Stadium, #Durban! Only option: purchase single use plastic bottled water inside. Unacceptable #plasticpollution #byobottle #refillrevolution

[Steve Cohen @Clean_Durban]

@wayneduv @SAPoliceService Completely unacceptable @wayneduv, but lets have some perspective. eThekwini Municipality regularly and purposefully diverts millions of litres of raw sewage from faulty pump stations into storm water drains! We have footage of that.

[Steve Trent @steventrent]

In nature there is no waste, there is no throwaway solution, everything is sustenance and support for something else. We have taken this astonishing natural economy and done our best to turn it into a garbage dump. End #SingleUsePlastics now. Adopt a #circularEconomy

[Steve Cohen @Clean_Durban]

@o9solutions @avonworldwide U

[Steve Cohen @Clean_Durban]

@PETCO_SA @twyg And then what happens to the polyester clothing in a fast fashion world?

[Steve Cohen @Clean_Durban]

Hundreds of thousands of @Dove cotton bud plastic stems arrive on our beaches and get washed out to sea each year in SA. The reason? They get flushed down the loo and evade waste water treatment plant filters. Why do our main retailers still stock this nasty product? #banthebud

[Steve Cohen @Clean_Durban]

@ThomeWendy @Prof_LGodfrey Sadly, an increasingly common practice across South Africa as local waste management systems fail and plastic packaging consumption scales up.

[Steve Cohen @Clean_Durban]

Merry Christmas and many thanks to the @eThekwiniM beach cleaning teams. I don't understand though why the city persists with these useless "bins".