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Amsterdam, 1 August 2018 – The hot weather draws many people to the beach and useful work is to be […]
Amsterdam, 1 August 2018 – The hot weather draws many people to the beach and useful work is to be […]
Amsterdam/Brussels, 31 July 2018 – This month the European Parliament’s environment committee spoke out in favour of a ban on […]
Hey hey hey! Sam again here. Festival season is nearly over, and my lord we are having a lovely time. […]
Amsterdam, 30 July 2018 – An important contributor to litter are drink pouches such as those from Capri-Sun, which is […]
Amsterdam, 23 July 2018 – On the initiative of As You Sow, 25 international investors have united in the Plastic […]
Amsterdam/Hilversum, 14 July 2018 – The American publishing house Island Press has bought the English global rights of the Plastic […]
Amsterdam, 13 July 2018 – SumOfUs.org campaigned against the plastic straws of McDonald’s and collected more than half a million […]
Together with the Plastic Soup Foundation, Embrace Concepts BV has launched a new brand: MBRC the Ocean. The first product that […]
Amsterdam, 6 July 2018 – British chemical giant Ineos announces an investment of 2.7 billion euro in a complex that’s […]
Amsterdam, July 5th, 2018 – Floating plastic waste that accumulates between quays and houseboats is difficult to remove. The plastic waste […]
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.