Two new faces in the Supervisory Board
De Raad van Toezicht van de Plastic Soup Foundation verandert deze zomer van samenstelling.
De Raad van Toezicht van de Plastic Soup Foundation verandert deze zomer van samenstelling.
For the second year in a row, Red Bull’s cans are the number one spot for producers whose products contribute the most to litter. Marlboro is number 2. Heineken has dropped from second to fourth, and McDonald’s is again in an embarrassing third place.
Last Monday, Ella Daish launched the #EndPeriodPlastic campaign in the UK. This campaign calls on Tampax (Procter & Gamble) to stop using plastic in menstrual products: tampons, applicators, sanitary towels, wraps and packaging.
September 2019: Up from 3rd to 1st place: unlike Max Verstappen, Red Bull’s cans did manage to get to the top – of the top 6 of litter found on World Cleanup Day 2019, to be precise.
With tens of millions at a time, microplastics end up in the sea by blasting old layers of paint onto ships, windmills or oil platforms. Next to tire grinding, fibres from synthetic clothing, plastic ingredients in cosmetics, paint is an underexposed cause of the plastic soup.
September 2019: Cans, cans, cans… Just walk around your neighbourhood and you’ll just stumble over the discarded cans. No wonder they are both on the 1st and 2nd place of last year’s World Cleanup Day most found litter. The largest beer brewer in our country is a ‘top scorer’.
After years of fierce resistance against deposits, Coca-Cola now even sees the government-imposed return system as the only way to achieve its own sustainability goals.
September 2019: Also at the 3rd place of our World Cleanup Day hit list is an iconic brand: McDonald’s. The easily recognizable straws with their red and yellow stripes and the Big Mac and McFlurry packaging have been polluting our Dutch landscape since the early 70s.
How do you convince shareholders of your acquisition ambitions? You tell a strong story! And that’s what waste giant Veolia did this week with an unexpected announcement to take over the French waste management company SUEZ in the long term. This takeover would create a ‘World Ecological Transition Champion’.
September 2019: At the 4th place in the top 6 of the litter most often found on World Cleanup Day, are the cigarette packets of Marlboro. Not surprising, because it is by far the most sold cigarette brand in the Netherlands.
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 […]
The first Impact Fair is Europe’s largest Impact Experience. An interactive ‘immersive’ experience of impactful examples.