Contact
Write, or call. Both are answered by the same person.
There is no switchboard and no enquiries team. Whatever you are getting in touch about — funding, contracting, replicating the method, a research collaboration or an outfall you have seen pouring plastic into a river — it reaches Oliver directly.
Direct
Oliver Hilton
Founder, Plastic Cleanup SA
+27 (0) 72 657 8881
WhatsApp on the same number.
Written contact is preferred and gets a fuller answer.
Location
Where we are
1 Agnes Street
Mount Moreland, 4339
Durban, KwaZulu-Natal
South Africa
Operating along the KwaZulu-Natal coast; open to work elsewhere in South Africa on a contracted basis.
Hours
When
09:00–17:00 SAST (UTC+2), Monday to Saturday.
Field and servicing work follows the weather, not the diary — if it is raining hard, expect a slower reply and better photographs afterwards.
What to include, so you get a useful reply
| If you are… | Tell us |
|---|---|
| A corporate funder or PRO | The catchment, coastline or province you care about; your reporting requirements and audit standard; your timeline and approval process; whether this is grant funding or a procurement. |
| Contracting delivery | The scope — capture operations, brand audit, outfall survey, monitoring — the geography, the deliverable format and the deadline. |
| A campaigner starting out | Where you are, what your catchment looks like, and the specific thing you are stuck on. Read the playbook first and then ask us what it does not answer — that is the most useful email you can send, because it tells us what to add. |
| A researcher or student | Your question, your protocol, your timeline and what access you would need. See the open questions. |
| Reporting a polluting outfall | A location or GPS pin, a photograph or video — ideally taken during rain — and roughly how often you see it discharging. |
| A journalist | What you are writing and by when. We will tell you plainly what we have and have not done; please see the status statement before writing that we operate installations, because we do not yet. |
A note on speed
This organisation currently runs on one person's time alongside other work. A considered reply may take a few days. If it is urgent — a funding deadline, a site being destroyed, a story on a clock — say so in the first line and call the number above.