Seventeen years from now, Africa must be rid of the menace of plastic waste infesting particularly the oceans surrounding it. That is the ambitious target the African Marine Waste Network (AMWN) is setting itself in the global war against plastic waste.
The Port Elizabethbased non-governmental organisation, Sustainable Seas Trust, last week launched an initiative called the Africa Youth Waste Network to rope in the continent’s youth in the battle against mounting plastic waste all across Africa.
