Winners of the CLiP STOMP Awards announced
From the 63 entries five winners were selected in five categories.
THE winners of the inaugural Commonwealth Litter Programme (CLIP) STOMP Awards were announced in Cape Town on 5 December.
From the 63 entries five winners were selected in five categories. The Technology or Technical Design Award went to The Mermaid Tear Catcher, submitted by Clare Swithenbank-Bowman from KwaZulu-Natal. The catcher is a recycled plastic “frisbee” that essentially is used to sieve out nurdles and other small plastics from the sand and facilitates people getting involved in citizen science projects.
The Product Award went to Patch Bamboo Plasters submitted by Dr Milliea Anis, and Luke Rudman’s The 12 Plastic Monsters, a performance art work that uses plastic waste to convey the horror of plastic pollution. It won the Adult Inspire through Creativity Category. The Youth Inspire through Creativity was won by The Oceano Reddentes NPC submitted by 12-year-old Jade Bothma from the Western Cape.
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The Special Recognition Award for Action went to Singakwenza, submitted by Julie Hay from KwaZulu-Natal. Singakwenza, which means ‘we can do it’ in isiZulu, provides low cost, high impact health and early education through empowerment programmes to economically-disadvantaged communities, particularly in rural areas of KwaZulu-Natal.
Kyle Briggs, from the UK’s Centre for Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) which leads the CLIP Programme, said: “The conference was a really exciting two days of knowledge-sharing and looking at practical solutions to the marine pollution problem which we hope will help contestants develop their ideas further.”
CLIP is led by the United Kingdom through the Centre for Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas), funded by the UK’s Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), and has partnered with Green Corridors, a Durban based non-profit organisation to roll out the awards programme in South Africa.
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