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Prof Johan Willemse

Global plastic pollution remains one of the biggest environmental challenges of our time. A new report shows that plastic consumption has quadrupled over the past 30 years. Globally, only 9% of plastic waste is recycled, while 50% ends up in landfills, 22% evades waste management systems, and 19% is incinerated.

“The revolution is not an apple that falls when it ripens; you have to make it fall”. Therefore, the best answer to the above question is revolutionizing the system like what we did during the 1960s and 1990s. The First Agricultural Revolution in South Africa, which exponentially increased the yield of food crops and saved millions of lives, came in form of the Green Revolution in the 1960s. The second revolution came in form of the Biotechnological 

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Modern technologies, including imaging, autonomous vehicles and machine learning are combining to bring efficiency and greater production to today’s farming sector.

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Aviation will be one of the toughest sectors to decarbonise. It’s also an area that creates a lot of confusion. For those that fly, it’s one of the largest chunks of their carbon footprint. But because most people don’t fly, it emits just 2% to 3% of global emissions