A tribute to our treasurer: Dieter Croese
23 May 2020 On Saturday, May 16, our treasurer Dieter Croese died entirely unexpectedly. This is my farewell letter. Hello […]
23 May 2020 On Saturday, May 16, our treasurer Dieter Croese died entirely unexpectedly. This is my farewell letter. Hello […]
The Dutch technology company Avantium hopes to build a factory this year, which would enable them to market PEF in 2023. The chemical company developed a technology, which allows them to convert plant sugars into FDCA, a raw material for PEF (polyethylene furoate).
Last March and April, millions of plastic nurdles washed ashore on the coast of Norway. The nurdles are scattered on the rocky coast of Oslofjord and on many other islands in the area. There are reports for at least 250 places, including the coast of Sweden.
To communicate with each other divers have special hand gestures for all kinds of fish and sea creatures, but why not for plastic?
A letter from Plastic Soup Foundation to the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) representing 196 national cycling federations received an enthusiastic response.
Textile standards must become much stricter. The textile sector must be sustainable, respect human rights, and eliminate unfair trade practices. These are the conclusions at the heart of the European Strategy for Sustainable Textile, Garments, Leather and Footwear, which was published on 23 April.
The first attempt by the Plastic Soup Foundation at the beginning of this year to have an environmental department take action against a polluting plastic producer in Rotterdam through an enforcement request was an immediate success. A unique case for Europe.
Ducor started cleaning the heavily polluted ports of Londenhaven and Brittanniëhavens in Rotterdam. Both ports are littered with a thick layer of plastic granules, also called nurdles, the raw material for many plastic products.
Dancers of NDT 1 & NDT 2 created and performed 17 new choreographies for the 2020 installment of Switch. With their initiative the SWITCH team collected & donated 25,000€ to the Plastic Soup Foundation.
The American plastics and recycling industry requested $1 billion worth of support from the federal government. Because of the corona crisis, the American recycling system is struggling. The Recover Coalition group is taking advantage of the corona crisis to save a sector that has been in severe difficulty many years now.
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.