Two new faces in the Supervisory Board
De Raad van Toezicht van de Plastic Soup Foundation verandert deze zomer van samenstelling.
Coca-Cola turns the beaches of Texel red
Texel, 16 January 2017 – Texel’s beaches are full of Coca-Cola labels. Photos of mounds of red and white labels appeared on Twitter. Reports were also received from other beaches on the islands of Vlieland and Terschelling and the mainland of North Holland.
The labels are thought to have come from one of the containers that the cargo vessel Red Cedar lost last week. It is the same ship that transported the Kinder-Surprise eggs that washed up last week on the German Wadden Sea island of Langeoog. Coca-Cola reported on Twitter that it was appalled to hear what had happened and said that “We are trying to contact the organisations that are involved in the clean up.”
According to the Maritime Herald, the Red Cedar lost 15 containers during the storm. The question is where have the contents of the other containers gone? Have they washed up somewhere or have they sunk to the seabed? One thing is certain, whatever does not wash up on beaches and get cleaned up or does not biodegrade, will forever be part of the Plastic Soup.
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Cans of Red Bull again at number 1 of most found litter
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Call To Tampax Goes Viral: ‘make All Menstrual Products Plastic-free’
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.
At no. 1: the cans of Red Bull
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.
