Blogs on plastic and health

New in the PlasticFreeFuture app: scan your clothes for plastic Are you wearing plastic today? Probably. Almost 70 percent (!) of all textiles worldwide are made from synthetic fibres, produced from fossil fuels such as crude oil. And that share is growing.

COMMENT - Understanding our everyday microplastic exposure is the first step to reducing it

Daniëlle Schouten is working on change in collaboration with the Plastic Soup Foundation, among others. Her mission is to change the way we look at our clothing; can we do things differently?

The plan to throw artworks made from plastic bottles back into the Mediterranean Sea has sparked a debate about art and responsibility.

Tiny fiddler crabs can break down microplastics in mangroves

‘The petro-states and industry are using the UN’s “consensus” requirement as an instrument of power,’ complain critics who had hoped for a more ambitious text. But why does that disappoint us, when many of us have long since started to organise our lives the way we want to?

Plastic Soup Foundation in dialogue with Albert Heijn on microplastics and Care products.

With Care Hospitality joins Plastic Soup Foundation in 2025 to fight plastic pollution.

Why buying fewer clothes is better for people, planet and your wardrobe.