The Dung Beetle says “RRR” about plastic pollution! Reduce, reuse and recycle! Did you know that only 11% of the plastic in South Africa is [...]
Students from the National School of the Arts in Johannesburg are ready for the show on The Dung Beetle art stage. As part of the [...]
Small World school, located in Johannesburg South Africa, is an innovative pre-school that uses drama and play to teach kids about environmental education, languages and [...]
The Dung Beetle Project Schools Outreach Initiative strives to spread the word of environmental conservation and educates about the importance of recycling and renewable energy. Education [...]
The ocean plastic crisis is something that many of us can bear witness to. Arguably surfers, who spend so much time in the water, see [...]
With great excitement the first Streetopia Johannesburg party kicked off on Saturday, 12 October with our very own Dung Beetle Stage hosting music, education and [...]
For the first time ever, Streetopia Jozi will be taking place this October in Johannesburg! The event will be in 7th Street, Melville on the [...]
Want to change the plastic conversation from tragic to terrific? A new project is pioneering how we see waste by asking us to imagine what [...]
Not only does our dung beetle travel to all parts of South Africa to teach and show people how plastic can be turned into energy, but it [...]
It’s official! This week our industrial beetle partner and for-profit offshoot ScarabTECH took delivery of our first commercial machine designed by our resident genius Pierre [...]
At the end of May Alliance Earth board member Ana Alecia Lyman and Dung Beetle Project Director Jeffrey Barbee, alongside our partner, Juliet Lyon from [...]
On the evening of their matric dance, the students of Hoërskool Boesmanland in Pofadder, South Africa engaged with the Dung Beetle’s recycling message of hope. [...]
Did you know that since China banned waste plastic from being imported in 2017, recycling plastic has become unprofitable for many countries? The rubbish often [...]
There are so many recycling symbols out there. The do’s and dont’s of recycling are confusing and you might be feeling lost. Well here’s the how [...]
How does the dung beetle work, is there any cost to running it? How about the dangers of it? In the interview below, one of [...]
The Dung Beetle already makes the seemingly impossible possible while changing people’s outlook on trash and recycling with its fiery message of hope, but now [...]
Our youngest and smallest team member asks the critical questions of what the Dung Beetle project is all about! As the generation that would be [...]
Dung Beetle Project Director Jeffrey Barbee joins Steve Blair in Delta County, where they are lining up suppliers and possible sites to create the first [...]
Join Jeffrey Barbee as he presents the Dung Beetle Project at the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (InSIS), Oxford University. [...]
We all know the harmful effects that plastic has on the environment, especially marine life. Plastics take thousands of years to break down and when [...]
After a successful year of developing and showcasing our ground-breaking Dung Beetle, we thought we’d show you just how useful it is in a practical, [...]
Dung beetles- small but mighty and sacred to the ancient Egyptians for a good reason. They’re a symbol of the re-birth of hope, and a [...]
Over the year we received a massive amount of machine work, equipment, knowledge and other assistance from Gov Scrap Metals, SAME Water, Allsteam Engineering, Erich [...]
It was with great pleasure that we hosted the first Dung Beetle Beach Cleanup at the mouth of the Umgeni River north of Durban. We [...]
Here is the latest update from the beetle frontline. We just had a site visit and a successful demonstration of the dung beetle project with [...]
Africa Live’s Julie Scheier from China Global Television Network (CGTN) reports on the benefits of the Dung Beetle machine and how it can help create [...]
As our unstoppable Dung Beetle marches closer and closer to revolutionising waste disposal in South Africa…it performed yet another miracle! This time it’s powering a [...]
Imagine if you could power your house using waste plastic bottles. It sounds like something out of a futuristic movie, right? The reality is that [...]
In an effort to address the problem of plastic waste, deforestation and the continent’s energy crisis in one fell swoop, not-for-profit organisation Alliance Earth has [...]
Dung Beetle innovation and creation is gaining speed here in the cold wintery south of Johannesburg, South Africa. We now have a new small working [...]
We can’t turn water into wine, but we can turn plastic waste into fuel and make an unforgettable spectacle at the same time! Yes, the [...]
The team created a flaming production out on the floodplain that included incredible live performances and international DJ acts as well as talks and tours [...]
So its been a long couple of months of hard work. As a journalist and film maker who dabbles in construction and mechanics, it has [...]
Our first attempts at starting up the beetle and turning plastic into power! [...]
Creating the actual beetle is exciting, because rest assured we are having a Dung Beetle sculpture, whether it stinks or not is up for you [...]
Plastic is everywhere on Earth. It is in tiny plankton, in our water supply, and in us. Dan Morrison is a friend and colleague who [...]
In ancient Egyptian mythology the scarab, or Dung Beetle, pushed the sun across the sky, but ours has more terrestrial plans. For the last week [...]
The beetle project is moving ahead and even here on the brink of the Easter holidays in South Africa the relentless push to drive the [...]
From the Dung Beetle team we would like to really like to thank people like David Hakkens and his crew at Precious Plastic. David shares [...]
So the way to get a map onto a globe of 6 meters in circumference is to project one 3 meters tall and six meters [...]
Check out the clipping of the South African Sunday Times article about the project. The Dung Beetle’s very own Pops explains how and why gasification [...]
The good folk over at ITWeb caught up with Jeff and David to find out more about our exciting project. Read how they run through [...]
What the dung beetle needs at times in full burn is more steam into the reactor core. Steam assists the gasification process, where we turn [...]
40 year old Marshal Matsveru is a Master Welder working at Advanced Armor. He comes from Thokoza, near Alberton in the South of Johannesburg where [...]
Although Rollfab usually works with larger companies within the mining industry, they were thankfully able to take on the small task of ensuring that our [...]
Building the mysterious gas condenser, which creates the liquid fuels that come from the Reactor. [...]
We are building the Dung Beetle, a larger-than-life, recycled metal machine that takes up plastic waste, which would normally fill our land-fills and oceans, and [...]
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Using South African technology and skills. Check out our newest episode, this time of the Reactor build, and see Michael Nhlapo work his magic. [...]
The Dung Beetle is a trailer-mounted movable art system sculpted of recycled metal being built in Johannesburg, South Africa who’s main aim it to bring [...]
