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Our mission

Stop the plastic soup tsunami as soon as possible! If we do not achieve this, we are leaving future generations with a terrible plastic plague. We are a ‘single issue’ environmental organization that is concerned with one thing: stopping plastic pollution at its source.

As part of this mission, we call out the industry and government where they fall short. We also put a special focus on the relationship between plastics and human health. Our recent work in this field includes campaigns on microplastics and the health effects of plastic waste, and especially our Plastic Health Summit. Finally, education underlies everything we do, as we believe that children are the future.

We, humans, are the source of plastic pollution; the plastic soup starts on our very own doorstep. But together we can do much more to stop plastic waste than we think!

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Our Impact

Plastic Health Summit

The Plastic Health Summit 2019 was the very first congress in the world on the effects of plastic on our health. With the second edition in 2021 we reached 600 million people. We’re organising the third edition of the summit in May 2023.

BEAT THE MICROBEAD

Since the beginning of the Beat the Microbead campaign, 19 countries have taken steps to ban microbeads. Now the European Union is in the process of restricting intentionally added microplastics in cosmetics, amongst other things.

Ocean Clean Wash

In 2014 we started addressing the problem of plastic microfibers and have since found various solutions to prevent ocean pollution by plastic fibers.

World Cleanup Day

A great success: over 41,000 participants took part in more than 1,574 cleanup actions in the Netherlands. We found that single-use plastic accounts for 71% of all found litter.

EDUCATION

Annually we reach more than 180,000 children in the Netherlands and Belgium with our free educational program about plastic soup for elementary and middle schools.

Plastic Health Summit

The Plastic Health Summit 2019 was the very first congress in the world on the effects of plastic on our health. It reached almost 400 million people.

BEAT THE MICROBEAD

With this campaign we have already convinced 448 cosmetic brands to stop using plastic microbeads, reducing plastic pollution in our waters due to cosmetics.

Ocean Clean Wash

In 2014 we started addressing the problem of plastic microfibers and have since found various solutions to prevent ocean pollution by plastic fibers.

World Cleanup Day

A great success: more than 16,000 participants took part in more than 1,400 cleanup actions in the Netherlands. We found that single-use plastic accounts for 61% of all found litter.

EDUCATION

More than 2500 schools in the Netherlands & Belgium are working with an educational kit about the problem of the plastic soup, a kit developed by  us and distributed for free.

Latest News

Plastic rocks on an isolated island

22 March 2023
The sombre message of stones made of plastic found on an uninhabited island far from the Brazilian coast.
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EU ban on microplastics in cosmetics: too slow and too limited

13 March 2023
Cosmetics companies selling personal care products without microplastics are calling for the swift introduction of a total ban in an open letter.
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Sungai Watch prevents Bali’s plastic waste from reaching the ocean

3 March 2023
In Bali, more and more rivers are being cleaned from plastic waste every day. What do Dutch travel suitcases made from recycled ocean plastic have to do with that?
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weekmakers en andere chemicaliën in plastic veroorzaken overgewicht

Chemicals plastic cause overweight

27 February 2023
Scientists suspect that fat formation in human bodies is stimulated by plastic.
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The end of PFAS is a step closer

9 February 2023
The Netherlands has submitted a proposal for a European ban to restrict the use of PFAS.
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miniverpakkingen gevonden in rivieren Bali

Will new Unilever CEO stop using sachets?

8 February 2023
Will the new CEO of Unilever deal with the problems caused by sachets which makes up much of the plastic soup? Plastic Soup Foundation is pessimistic.
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Is sunlight causing the plastic soup to disappear?

30 January 2023
Dutch researchers find a new explanation to the mystery of the disappeared plastic: sunlight clears away floating plastic.
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Danone hauled up before the French court for excessive use of plastic

24 January 2023
The multinational Danone has been charged in France for not having a plastic policy to prevent damage to the environment and health.
https://www.plasticsoupfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/HEADER-WEBSITE-16.jpg 300 1440 Fleur Bosch https://www.plasticsoupfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/PSFlogo_nieuw.jpg Fleur Bosch2023-01-24 16:39:212023-01-24 16:39:24Danone hauled up before the French court for excessive use of plastic

PLASTIC SOUP FOUNDATION DISAGREES WITH EUROPEAN CONSUMERS’ ASSOCIATIONS

19 January 2023
In November 2022 the Dutch Consumers’ Association Consumentenbond published the results of a report which made us raise our eyebrows.
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