Inconceivable, allowing plastic in livestock feed
Adult pigs may eat 1.5 grammes of plastic every day. Completely legally. How is it possible that we allow this to happen?
Adult pigs may eat 1.5 grammes of plastic every day. Completely legally. How is it possible that we allow this to happen?
Unilever’s mini packets significantly add to the plastic pollution in low-income countries. Yet the multinational is simply continuing business as usual.
Nearly 80 percent of meat and dairy products from farm animals tested by scientists contain microplastics, a new study has found.
The level of microplastic pollution in the air can be analysed from spiders’ cobwebs as they catch more than just insects.
Microplastics are all over, like in tar balls on the coastline of the Canary Islands. This new type of plastic pollution is called plastitar.
The world has lulled itself to sleep in terms of the SDGs framework. The well-known Sustainable Development Goals seem unattainable. This is primarily because ‘fossil’ has been given free rein.
Experts have come together from across Europe to explore how the EU can ensure upcoming microplastics restriction can protect both the environment and humans.
ING Bank claims that it is concerned about the problem of the plastic soup, yet it is putting hundreds of millions into new plastic production in Antwerp. It is stepping all over its own sustainability policy.
Pieces of PUR – insulation foam – in the environment remains a hidden and little known form of hazardous litter
Large European supermarkets can and should do much more to reduce their plastic usage.
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.’
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