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Africa’s sustainability changemakers unite: YES ESG and Beyond Awards

ESG Africa Conference Africa’s sustainability changemakers unite: YES ESG and Beyond Awards

4 Jul 2025

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20 May 2025

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Nigeria’s plastic waste could enrich the fashion industry: here’s how

Solaja Mayowa Oludele 22 Sep 2025

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Designers Hugo Dumas and Carla Zhang bring fresh solutions to fashion’s growing waste problem

9 Sep 2025

Coca-Cola Beverages Africa invests $50m in Namibia, boosting production capacity by 30%

Coca-Cola Beverages Africa invests $50m in Namibia, boosting production capacity by 30%

5 Nov 2024

Alice Aedy, Andrew Burgess, Jade Roche and Luke Jaque-Rodney. Source: Supplied

New Puma project gives young changemakers a seat at the sustainability table

20 Apr 2023

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Call for applications - Green Entrepreneurship Awards 2023

6 Mar 2023

Plastic-eating enzymes could help combat fashion's polyester waste problem

Plastic-eating enzymes could help combat fashion's polyester waste problem

6 Feb 2023

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Second-hand markets are on the up (and even Zara has jumped on the bandwagon)

Teresa Sádaba 6 Feb 2023

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Trends paving the way for the future of retail in Africa

Lauren Hartzenberg 4 Nov 2022

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Major brands failing to meet plastic sustainability goals

3 Nov 2022

Air pollution second leading risk factor for death across Africa - report

Air pollution second leading risk factor for death across Africa - report

28 Oct 2022

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H&M Foundation on the lookout for sustainable fashion innovators

24 Oct 2022

Fast fashion giant Shein commits to cutting emissions

Fast fashion giant Shein commits to cutting emissions

13 Oct 2022

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African digital innovators are turning plastic waste into value - but there are gaps

Seun Kolade and Muyiwa Oyinlola 16 Aug 2022

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Ethical fashion: How transparent are the world's biggest brands?

15 Jul 2022

Ghanaian glassblower Michael Tetteh, 44, assisted by members of his staff, blows glass at his glassware manufacturing workshop in Krobo Odumase, Ghana on 15 March 2022. Source: Reuters/Francis Kokoroko

Ghanian artist melts glass waste into wonders

Cooper Inveen and Francis Kokoroko 11 Apr 2022

Plastic waste floats near the entrance to the Ruzizi I hydroelectric plant in Bukavu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo October 20, 2021. | Source: Reuters/Crispin Kyalangalilwa

Congolese city turns its plastic problem into profit

Crispin Kyalangalilwa 8 Apr 2022

Joshua Amponsem, founder of the Green Africa Youth Organisation and Afri-Plastics Challenge judge. | Source: Supplied

Africa's rural communities will be the hardest hit by plastic pollution

Joshua Amponsem 1 Apr 2022

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Recycling grows in Africa, creating job and business opportunities

18 Mar 2022

Coca-Cola sets goal to make 25% of packaging reusable by 2030

Coca-Cola sets goal to make 25% of packaging reusable by 2030

14 Feb 2022

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'It's our stuff': Consumers wage right-to-repair revolution

Carey L. Biron and Umberto Bacchi 19 Oct 2021

A worker offloads used car tyres from a cargo tricycle in preparation for recycling at the Freetown waste management recycle factory in Ibadan, Nigeria September 17, 2021. | Source: Reuters/Temilade Adelaja

A new type of black gold in Nigeria: used car tyres

Fikayo Owoeye and Seun Sanni 14 Oct 2021

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Nestlé's transition towards a regenerative food system speeds up

21 Sep 2021

PepsiCo introduces initiative to drive sustainable transformation strategy

PepsiCo introduces initiative to drive sustainable transformation strategy

20 Sep 2021

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NGOs seek to halt proposed mining activities in Zambia's Lower Zambezi National Park

6 Sep 2021

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Nesta Challenges launches CA$14,5m Afri-Plastics Challenge

3 Aug 2021

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Top fashion brands remain reliant on synthetics, guilty of greenwashing - report

12 Jul 2021

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Lego reveals first prototype brick made from recycled plastic bottles

24 Jun 2021

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