South Africans can celebrate another successful Clean-Up and Recycle Week (12-17 September 2022) as thousands of kilogrammes of waste were removed from our natural spaces this past week.

Hundreds of clean-up events took place around South Africa in an effort to keep our environment clean, with many more initiatives continuing to take place over the coming weeks.

Clean-Up and Recycle Week 2022 was action-packed and it was wonderful to see the large number of volunteers signing up for clean-ups at beaches, rivers and streams and in communities around the country. This year’s Clean-Up & Recycle SA Week included River Clean-Up Day, which took place on Wednesday, 14 September, National Recycling Day which took place on Friday, 16 September, and the International Coastal Clean-Up and World Clean-up Day,  both falling on Saturday, 17 September.  Our sincere gratitude goes out to the coordinators who worked tirelessly to ensure that everything ran smoothly on the day;  the many sponsors who contributed either financially or with products to this year’s clean-up efforts, and every South African who freely and willingly gave of their time and energy to make a difference, by removing visible litter from the environment!

Catch a glimpse of these incredible days when South Africans joined 180 countries across the world for a cleaner planet as volunteers and organisations took to cleaning every space imaginable – including divers who went deep-sea litter hunting!