Is Coca-Cola’s latest promise really a step forward?
Coca-Cola pledges that one-quarter of all its plastic bottles will be refillable in 2030. But what is that pledge worth?
Coca-Cola pledges that one-quarter of all its plastic bottles will be refillable in 2030. But what is that pledge worth?
Good news! One of the world’s largest container companies will stop working on the dumping of plastic waste on low-income countries by high-income countries. Now just all the other shipping companies.
Plastic Soup Foundation and other environmental organisations support the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in its call for an international binding plastic treaty.
Two approaches to tackle the plastic soup in the run-up to UNEA, where the world will decide on an international plastic treaty.
We are heartbroken that Dr. Susan Shaw, our dear friend and Founder/Executive Director of the Shaw Institute, passed away after battling a long illness.
Microplastics in fertilisers is a little known environmental problem that also has potential health effects. The new Minister of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality must bring about plastic free agriculture.
The word ‘plastic’ does not appear in the coalition agreement. Together with other environmental organizations, we wrote a letter about the plastic policy to the new State Secretary.
Chemicals and plastic are new entities for the earth that together exceed the planetary boundary.
The possibility of the creation of a Plastics Treaty at the upcoming UN Environmental Assembly could go either way. Will the promising Rwanda/Peru draft resolution come out on top, or the much weaker Japan resolution win out?
Good news: a fully circular use of plastic may be possible thanks to fungal enzymes that break down PET within 10 days.
By the end of this year, there should be a global plastic treaty that will stop plastic pollution of our planet. To achieve this, the United Nations environment department is organising the Intergovernmental Negotiation Committee on Plastic Pollution negotiations. The 4th round, INC4, took place in Ottawa Canada. The new plastics treaty is considered one of the most important environmental agreements made since the Paris climate accords in 2015. The stakes are high and that was evident in Ottawa.
Eighty-five per cent of citizens want single-use plastic packaging to disappear completely. This is according to new research by Ipsos commissioned by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the Plastic Free Foundation. Entrepreneurs who abandon packaging or make it more sustainable seem to have tapped into a goldmine – but part of the business community is still deaf and dumb. ‘People are getting fed up with all the plastic in the supermarket.’
March 15 2024 That’s what readers of news site nu.nl on their comment platform Nujij were wondering. In a recent […]
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