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Due to Covid-19, plastic refuse now seriously litters the shoreline of Cape Town's Black River as it enters the Atlantic Ocean

Cleaning up Cape Town's Black River Plastic Tsunami in the Time of Covid

Cape Town, August 23, 2020 – One large 1,000-liter bag brimming with polystyrene, three large 400-liter bags choc-a-bloc with pet bottles, five-80 liter bags overflowing with shoes and one bag bursting with bottle tops, straws and lollipop sticks. All the result of a couple of hours back-straining effort by 30 adult and young volunteers to help clean a heavily littered stretch in the mouth of Cape

Perfect winds in the Stockholm archipelago for the Royal Swedish Yacht Club KSSS Sandhamn Regatta by Bluewater

Fair winds and pure drinking water set perfect scene for annual Sandhamn Regatta by Bluewater

This year saw Bluewater launch its own range of environmentally friendly BPA-free water bottles, available in both stainless steel and shatter-proof glass with silicon sleeves, as a means to end the need for the single use plastic water bottles that are partly responsible for the global plague of micro-plastics now in the water we drink, air we breathe and food we eat...

Microplastics are in the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the water we drink (Photo:iStock Credit:invincible_bulldog)

Is the tide ebbing on removing single use plastics?

A 2019 report commissioned by Bluewater saw one of the world’s leading specialists on hormones describe micro plastic pollution as ‘the number one threat to humankind’ due to the way it affects blood pressure, fertility, immune systems and sparked multiple diseases including cancer.

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