The future of the refillable bottle is promising
The refillable bottle – the ‘Universal Bottle’ – is a great success in Brazil and will hopefully help raise awareness that the refillable bottle must become the ‘new normal’.
The refillable bottle – the ‘Universal Bottle’ – is a great success in Brazil and will hopefully help raise awareness that the refillable bottle must become the ‘new normal’.
While Australia has banned the export of plastic waste, it is actually still continuing disguised as fuel. This must stop.
As a new father and working at the Plastic Soup Foundation, how do you cope with a world in which almost everything is made of plastic?
Positive 21-year-old activist Melati Wijsen has accomplished much in her fight against plastic pollution on home island Bali. What can we learn from her?
A new report shows that the Westerschelde is heavily polluted with ‘nurdles’, small plastic granules coming from the plastics industry.
Exported discarded clothing sent by Europe to low-income countries is causing serious environmental problems and is making the plastic soup worse.
3 March 2022 108 NGOs, together in Nairobi for UNEA 5.2, the UN summit on the environment, issued a joint […]
Plastic packaging does not lengthen the shelf life of fresh products. The packaging does not stop food waste.
At the UN Summit UNEA 5.2 the decision was taken to establish an intergovernmental commission to come up with an international, legally binding treaty against plastic pollution.
Even if the United Nations embraces the concept of a circular economy in Nairobi, it will not guarantee the safe and healthy use of plastic.
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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