"The pollution along this river impacts many low-income communities living in environmentally harmful conditions that undermine their quality of life and livelihoods. The mass clean-up focused on specific parts of the river where community interaction with the river is the highest. We removed 500 bags of waste, an incredible achievement.”
"I'm really stoked that Bluewater trailers are on board with the Cape Town Trail Marathon and that they will enable the marathon to be single-use plastic free", said Ryan Sandes.
'Micro plastics are now in the air we breathe, the food we eat and the water we drink...', said Janneke Brasecke, General Manager Bluewater South Africa.
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
Swedish water company realigns South African organisation with heightened focus on mobile hydration station solutions and water purification solutions for homes and commercial applications
Demand for drinking water refills grows as Bluewater helps Sanlam Cape Town Marathon reduce single-use plastic waste
Plastic cups, straws and single use plastics have been banned at the upcoming Rocking Daisies festival in Cape Town, where Bluewater will be on hand to serve pure water without plastic from non-municipal sources to keep music lovers sound of body and mind with water as cool as the music.
Cape Town's environment was one of the top winners in the Sanlam Cape Town Marathon, with the use of single-use plastics significantly reduced and no municipal water used in the water scarce city thanks to unique Bluewater mobile water stations that kept runners and onlookers hydrated and saved the use of plastics equivalent to 2600 standard water bottles.
Nedbank Green Affinity Trust has partnered with Bluewater – a world-leader in water purification technologies – to offer a fun activation at the upcoming Nedbank Cup Final between Maritzburg United and Free State Stars in Cape Town, South Africa.
Staying well hydrated at the Zando Cape Town Tens social sport and lifestyle event is a cinch despite the city's acute water shortage thanks to a unique Bluewater water station that will generate pristine chilled still and sparkling water without using municipal water.
Bluewater, the world leader in innovative water purification technologies, today told the Volvo Ocean Health Summit in Cape Town that human ingenuity already today can help correct the tsunami of plastic ocean waste threatening all life on the planet.
Bluewater will help avoid the use of around half-a-million throw-away plastic water bottles during the upcoming Volvo Ocean Race stop-over in Cape Town by providing four unique water stations using the company's patented state-of-the-art purification technology that will turn low quality water in clean drinking water for tens of thousands of visitors to the race village.