Cosmetic products are full of plastic
Multinationals have promised changes, but consumers are still being exposed to dangerous health risks due to microplastics. Amsterdam, February 15, […]
Multinationals have promised changes, but consumers are still being exposed to dangerous health risks due to microplastics. Amsterdam, February 15, […]
Amsterdam, 7 February 2017 – The Plastic Soup Foundation would like to thank the National Postcode Lottery and all its […]
London, 25 January 2017 – The call to introduce a plastic bottle deposit scheme in the UK has never been […]
London/Rotterdam, 14 January 2017 – Unilever has committed to ensuring that all its packaging will be fully reusable, recyclable or […]
Langeoog, January 9th 2017 – Thousands of plastic Kinder Surprise eggs washed up on the German Wadden Sea island of […]
Every year, 2.8 billion single-use paper coffee cups are thrown away. The paper cups contain a thin layer of plastic […]
In Germany, one in three face scrubs contains polyethylene (PE), and that is just as many as in 2014. Together […]
Every year the Plastic Soup Foundation awards a prize to a politician who has taken action to tackle the problem […]
Clothing has been made from synthetic fabrics for more than 50 years. These items of clothing shed fibers during machine […]
2016 was an important year in the fight against plastic microbeads and other microplastics in personal care products. Many countries […]
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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