Rethink the Bag -Gansbaai

Rethink the Bag -Gansbaai To mobilise our communities toward reusable grocery bags, eliminating plastic straws and plastic wat Why you may ask? what is happening to them?

Our aim is to be the first town in the Overberg to be plastic bag free. Well sources estimate that South Africa uses more than 8 billion single use (plastic bags we carry our groceries away in) plastic bags per year, very convenient and simple, yes. But have you ever asked the question or followed the trail of these plastic bags when you throw them 'away' - where is away? Most end up in landfills

- many of which are caught on the wind and float around decorating fences, trees and roadsides before they make their way into our oceans and become part of the plastic islands in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Here they float about, baked by the sun until they breakdown into brittle pellets which our sea animals ingest. That is of course if the bags have not yet encountered sea birds, seals and fish first who become entangled and drown or ingest the bags mistaking it for food and dying because it blocks their systems or starves them. That is the thanks we have to our oceans which provide oxygen and food so we can be healthy and alive. Whilst plastic bags are not the only culprit, it is the one thing we all use and have control over , we can all decide not to use them and so shift retailers to a different solution. As long as we buy them because they are convenient, they will be available. Lets stand together on this to save our oceans, our ocean animals and ultimately ourselves because whether we believe it or not we are dependent on our planet, oceans and environment for our life. It is then a short trip to looking at other plastic 'issues' like straws, water bottles, wrappings and find alternatives fro these too. We don't believe for one moment that all plastic will need to go or will ever go completely, we can though manage the plastic, especially single use items that are produced in their billions to land up in our oceans, landfills and environment suffocating our planet. Plastic never goes 'away' - it remains in one form or another choking the life out of our planet. Some questions t ask yourself along the path to being conscious of the environment:
Where do all the plastic 'throw aways' go? Why are we paying for plastic bags and where does the government levy from this get used? Have you done the math - 8 billion plastic bags x 40-50cents, including 6 cents for government - per year??? What alternatives are there for plastic bags, plastic straws - do we even need to use straws, plastic bottles - why not glass which is recyclable?? How can I make a difference? how can I recycle, upcycle plastic? Time to do something, take action. Help us make Gansbaai a plastic free zone and change the way we work with our envionment. We can if we have the will to.

In support of breast- cancer month and Hospice. Stalls stallholders and visitors all in pink- even our DJ.Come and suppo...
29/10/2022

In support of breast- cancer month and Hospice. Stalls stallholders and visitors all in pink- even our DJ.
Come and support!

26/03/2022
06/08/2021

Plastics SA
Clean-Up and Recycle!

Do you still buy plastic bags at the supermarkets?
10/07/2021

Do you still buy plastic bags at the supermarkets?

This Plastic Free July, you can cut out plastics that end up hurting the sea turtles that pass by the South African coastline.

Plastic free month
03/07/2021

Plastic free month

How is your Plastic Free July going ? Did you forget? Were you too busy ? Its okay you can start NOW 😀.
Avoid what you can,reuse what you can't & recycle the rest as a last resort.

Gansbaai Tourism had a coastal clean-up in Franskraal. Great to see youngsters joining in!
21/03/2021

Gansbaai Tourism had a coastal clean-up in Franskraal. Great to see youngsters joining in!

Please dispose of fishing line responsibly. This was spotted at Franskraal Beach. The Dyer Island Conservation Trust, to...
24/02/2021

Please dispose of fishing line responsibly. This was spotted at Franskraal Beach. The Dyer Island Conservation Trust, together with the Overstrand Municipality has even made it easy by placing special bins for disposal at key areas.

Show that you care
06/12/2020

Show that you care

Save this date - 19 December 2020 @ 13:00!!!! Show you care about the environment and join our December Coastal Clean Up...... prizes up for grabs.

RSVP: Doulene Els at 082 841 1670 / [email protected]

Another way to protect our environment-
26/11/2020

Another way to protect our environment-

NO FIREWORKS, FLARES OR CHINESE LANTERNS ALLOWED IN OVERSTRAND

We urge residents and visitors to be sensible - please, “don’t even consider setting off fireworks since one cannot determine where they might land, causing a fire and resulting in losses.

Note, too, that the use of Chinese (sky) lanterns, crackers and flares for any purpose other than an emergency, are prohibited by law.

Stirling work done but what a pity that it is needed. If only everyone disposed of their trash responsibly.
29/09/2020

Stirling work done but what a pity that it is needed. If only everyone disposed of their trash responsibly.

02/08/2020

Heartsore. Lets make an effort

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