By Jay Caboz, Business Insider SA
A South African petition calling for a countrywide ban on single-use plastic bags has clocked up more than 100,000 signatures on one of the world’s largest social change websites, Change.org.
That is a significant number for a country the size of South Africa, David Barre, managing director of communications at Change.org, told Business Insider South Africa – but not a record.
“The signature count for this petition is definitely on the high end. That said, there are petitions focused on South Africa that gathered more signatures,” said Barre in response to questions.
The website sees about 25,000 campaigns posted every month from 196 countries. Anyone can sign up and create a petition. Other users can then vote. Once the number of votes exceeds a minimum number, others can choose to help promote a petition by boosting the post, much like a Facebook sponsored post, which increases the reach of the petition to others…Read more>>
