Chemelot allowed to discharge 14,000 kilos of microplastics into the Maas per year
Plastic Soup Foundation demands a response from Chemelot and explores options to take steps against proposed dumping.
Clean rivers
Rijkswaterstaat must clean up non-functional ground cloth
Rijkswaterstaat, the Netherlands executive agency of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, uses the geotextile to strengthen banks and breakwaters.
Coca-Cola: Let’s not waste this summer
Amsterdam, 25 July 2019 – Isn’t it nice to drink a cold coke during a hot summer? Coca-Cola sales will […]
Worldwide call for a Clean Planet: Bring in container deposits to combat pollution from bottles and cans
Amsterdam, 9 May 2019 – A worldwide network of environmental organisations from five continents is calling for the worldwide introduction […]
Disappointing UNEA resolution on plastic soup: Shell and Unilever get their own way
Amsterdam, 20th March 2019 – The world has chosen not to combat the plastic soup with a reduction in plastics […]
At least 24 million nurdles washed up on dutch beaches
Amsterdam, 14thMarch 2019 – A small 24 million ‘nurdles’ have been washed ashore on the beaches of the Wadden Sea Islands […]
Does the Rutte cabinet really want less plastic?
Amsterdam, 6 March 2019 – State Secretary Stientje van Veldhoven (D66) of Infrastructure and Water Management has promised that in […]
The Clean Rivers project receives almost two million euro to make the Dutch river delta plastic-free
Amsterdam, February 18, 2019 – The Clean Rivers Project has procured a donation of € 1,950,000.00 from the National Postcode Lottery […]
Extensive loss of pellets at sea remains without sanctions
Plastic Soup Foundation organizes a pellet count in the Netherlands Amsterdam, 28 January 2019 – At the start of this […]
Endless varieties of wildlife consuming and defecating plastic
Amsterdam, 27 November 2018 – Dutch researchers determined in 2015 already that the number of marine species affected by plastic either […]
Latest news
Towards a global Plastic Treaty
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.
Business has blind spot: 85% citizens are plastic tired
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.’
What’s the deal with the Plastic Soup again?
March 15 2024 That’s what readers of news site nu.nl on their comment platform Nujij were wondering. In a recent […]
Impact Fair, 4,5,6 April – Jaarbeurs Utrecht.
The first Impact Fair is Europe’s largest Impact Experience. An interactive ‘immersive’ experience of impactful examples.
