Microplastics can damage fish livers
Ingestion of microplastics can have a negative impact on fish by causing damage and changes to their livers. These effects […]
Ingestion of microplastics can have a negative impact on fish by causing damage and changes to their livers. These effects […]
In December 2015, a law was passed in the United States of America prohibiting the use of plastic microbeads in […]
The accumulation of garbage and waste attracts pests such as rats, mice, or, in this case, insects. This is the […]
A new report on dealing with the plastic soup was presented at the World Economic Forum, where world leaders came […]
Amsterdam, February 11th, 2016. Today, exactly five years ago, Maria Westerbos founded the Plastic Soup Foundation (PSF). Not long before […]
The ingestion of microplastics has negative effects on the reproduction cycle of the Pacific cupped oyster. This was the conclusion […]
British scientists of Imperial College have answered the question whether it is better to clear up microplastics in the middle […]
21 January 2016 – Dorian van Rijsselberghe, the defending Olympic Windsurfing Champion for Rio 2016 complained in his X-Mas 2015 […]
On January 1st, 2016, the Netherlands banned the distribution of free plastic bags. The European Union forces the Member States […]
President Obama signed the Microbead-Free Waters Act at the end of December. As of 1 July 2017, producers will be […]
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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