European textile industry’s microfiber initiative puts off taking action
Amsterdam, 2 February 2018 – Plastic microfibers are released during the machine washing of synthetic clothing. Microfibers in the environment […]
Amsterdam, 2 February 2018 – Plastic microfibers are released during the machine washing of synthetic clothing. Microfibers in the environment […]
The Algalita Marine Research and Education Foundation has returned from an expedition to the South Pacific Gyre in the South […]
Until now Antarctica was seen as a pristine and untouched wilderness with relatively little plastic pollution, but the opposite is […]
At the foot of the holy Langju Glacier, at nearly 6.5 kilometers altitude, at the very heart of the Himalayas, […]
Amsterdam, 8 May 2017 – By machine washing our clothes, we are polluting our seas and oceans. This is the shocking […]
The Plastic Soup Foundation congratulates the Rozalia Project’s Rachel Miller on her successful Cora Ball Kickstarter campaign to reduce pollution. […]
Arrow worms are transparent torpedo-shaped animals. They live in the sea from zooplankton. For the first time a film has […]
The very first specially designed laundry bag that catches microfibers has hit the market. The Guppy Friend is a German […]
London/Rotterdam, 14 January 2017 – Unilever has committed to ensuring that all its packaging will be fully reusable, recyclable or […]
Clothing has been made from synthetic fabrics for more than 50 years. These items of clothing shed fibers during machine […]
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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