Make producers responsible for water pollution caused by microplastics
Amsterdam, 22 January 2020 – Billions of euros are needed to remove microplastics and micropollutants from water. Will these costs […]
Amsterdam, 22 January 2020 – Billions of euros are needed to remove microplastics and micropollutants from water. Will these costs […]
AMSTERDAM, January 16, 2020 – The estimated 24 million plastic granules which washed ashore on the Dutch coast as a […]
Amsterdam, 10 January 2020 – Nowhere have so many microplastics in the air been measured as in London. The vast […]
Amsterdam, 07 January 2020 – The health risks of mega-fires such as those in Australia are worsened by the toxins […]
Amsterdam, 22 December 2019 – Managers of sports fields are responsible for the rubber granulate found outside the artificial turf […]
Amsterdam, 16 December 2019 – Stientje van Veldhoven, Minister of the Environment and Housing, talks with the fireworks industry to […]
Amsterdam, 14 December 2019 – There are 4000 microplastics in one kilo of compost. Wageningen University has been commissioned by […]
Amsterdam, 13 December 2019 – The Japanese edition of the Plastic Soup Atlas of the World was published by the […]
Amsterdam, 10 December 2019 – The two airports of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates will become plastic-free from 1 […]
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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.