Dutchess of the Sea: crossing the ocean in a pink rowing boat
Who rows the ocean the fastest? December 12th, the Talisker Whiskey Atlantic Challenge will start. One of the toughest rowing races there is.
Who rows the ocean the fastest? December 12th, the Talisker Whiskey Atlantic Challenge will start. One of the toughest rowing races there is.
Cigarette butts are most often found as litter in the environment. Because the upcoming new European directive will not solve this problem, the Dutch government will have to ban the impressionable butt.
Plastic is everywhere around us during the Christmas season: plastic packaging, presents and decorations. Is there a way to escape it?
Worldwide, there is growing support for the idea of criminalising damage to ecosystems through the International Criminal Court (ICC) in addition to war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity.
Manatees, whales, dolphins, sea lions, turtles, and many other animals are permanently at risk of dying from plastic in the sea. Oceana, an organization working to protect the ocean, has gathered data on this for the first time.
Increasingly, plastic waste is shredded and sold as fuel. It is a shortcut to get rid of plastic waste under the guise of recycling.
A new law in the U.S. must protect the ocean from plastic. The law only looks at waste management and not at plastic production. As a result, this law will overshoot its goal.
The average American uses so much plastic every year that the country contributes a lot to the plastic soup, even though it is collected. Also, what is counted as recycling can end up in the environment.
Within a few days, the count shot up from 180,000 downloads to 276,743, with 656,200 new products being scanned within a week.
Teun van de Keuken from the TV program Keuringsdienst van Waarde confronted the Dutch Cosmetics Association on Thursday 22 October with the question of why producers are not more transparent about using plastic in care products.
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 […]
The first Impact Fair is Europe’s largest Impact Experience. An interactive ‘immersive’ experience of impactful examples.