Our health is seriously damaged by plastic and the chemicals in it
Minderoo Foundation releases new report: Our health is seriously damaged by plastic and the chemicals in it.
Are you ready to #RefuseSingleUse for planet Earth?
For this year’s Earth Day, April 22, Plastic Soup Foundation is collaborating with cosmetic brand LUSH to ask consumers in the Netherlands and Belgium to #RefuseSingleUse plastic items once and for all.
Why, you may ask? Because “If we continue with our plastic habits, the oceans will have more plastic than fish by 2050.” (Ellen McArthur Foundation)
Plastic bottles, bags and straws. They take 5 seconds to be made. They are used for 5 minutes. And they take more than 500 years to disappear. They basically don’t disappear at all, they break down into ever smaller pieces, eaten by plankton and up the food chain. Guess who is at the top of it? Us!
With the campaign “Dit vluggertje komt ons duur te staan” (“This quickie will cost us”) we ask people to publicly pledge to stop using one, two or three of these top-3 most found single-use items for 30 days. The affair might be brief, but the consequences are forever.
Take the 30-day pledge and challenge three friends to do the same. Will you join? Go to our landing page to take the pledge and challenge your friends to do the same!
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FUTURE FABRICS EXPO LONDEN
On June 25 and 26, the Future Fabrics Expo 2024 took place in London. The thrust of this fair is to show that it is quite possible to make clothes from sustainable materials.
IN MEMORIAM – Dick Vethaak
On June two, 2024, Professor Dick Vethaak passed away. With him is lost a great and progressive scientist, but above all, a wonderful husband and father.
Towards a global Plastic Treaty
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.
