A university is removing all single-use cups from its campuses following a pilot scheme which "saved 4,500 disposable cups ...

city cafes were brought under the banner of the initiative upon its launch to try and get the word out and change mindsets.

Drinking tea or coffee is an everyday habit for many, but have you ever thought about what might be lurking in your paper cup ...

Some commercially available tea bags contain high levels of microplastics that appear to infuse right into your drink. Brew a ...

A creative vase can help incorporate your flowers into your decor. Find a plastic bucket, and you will be on your way to ...

We usually use cups made of paper to drink tea and coffee. But let us tell you, if the cup is made of paper, then water or ...

It’s the year 2025 and, by now, it is abundantly clear that we have a major plastic problem–garbage patches in the ocean, ...

A team of 402 illegal miners became trapped in the depths of Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in South Africa but only 324 of them emerged when they were pulled out. Seventy-eight of them met a grim fate ...

In August, police began blocking food and water from entering the old Buffelsfontein Gold Mine near Stilfontein in the North West province of South Africa, to try to force hundreds of illegal ...

Last week, rescuers recovered 78 bodies and 246 survivors — many of them weak and emaciated — from the Buffelsfontein mine in Stilfontein, in South Africa’s North West province, where police ...

Tshoaeli escaped from custody last week after police concluded their operations to bring illegal miners at the Buffelsfontein shaft to the surface. Asaneng said while the purpose of Operation Vala ...

CAPE TOWN - The prevalence of illegal mining was brought into sharp focus by the prolonged removal of zama zamas from the unused Buffelsfontein mine in Stilfontein. Government was eventually ...