Environmentalists decry increasing use of single-use plastic & paper products.

Climate and Energy Campaigner for Greenpeace Africa, Thandile Chinyavanhu on concerns around the waste from single use plastic products and the environmental effects, this after the second Plastic Waste Makers Index, compiled by the philanthropic Minderoo Foundation, which found that the world generated 139 million metric tons of single-use plastic waste in 2021, which was 6 million metric tons more than in 2019, when the first index was released.