Do you want to know what the Plastic Soup Foundation is doing? What activities we campaign on and what we want to achieve? The battle against plastic pollution is a very long one, but looking back at 2022, we can note a lot of successes.
What else do we do:
Plastic Fashion is our campaign to breathe new life into the problem of synthetic clothing fibres.
We have worked closely with other organisations for years on a deposit system for bottles and cans. And we have been successful! Plastic bottles have had a deposit system since 2021 and cans will follow in April 2023. It is wonderful that NS, the Dutch railway, will install deposit machines at fifty large stations in the Netherlands and has already started in Utrecht and The Hague. And … with one press of the button, users can donate the deposit money to us.
We launched a children’s book called ‘Dit was de plastictijd’ (this was the era of plastic) and a brand new children’s website in October (both in Dutch). The newspaper ‘Het Parool’ called the children’s book ‘the most unexpected title of this year’s Children’s Book Week’ and at the Buchmesse book fair in Frankfurt, there was immediate interest in having the book available in different languages.
We organise the ‘World Cleanup Day’ every year in the Netherlands.
Farm Animals is the name under which the research that we are funding at the Free University of Amsterdam into microplastics in the feed, meat, blood and milk of farm animals is being done.
In the Beat the Microbead campaign we urge producers to remove plastics and microplastics from their products and ask consumers to stop using products containing microplastics.
Nurdles are tiny plastic granules of which in the EU alone, 23 billion end up in the environment every day. The Plastic Soup Foundation has been fighting this type of plastic pollution for years. Read all about it in the Nurdle dossier
Education has been at the heart of our organisation right from the start. We reach more than 180,000 pupils in the Netherlands and Belgium with our free lesson materials.
Our two successful apps are Beat the Microbead and My Little Plastic Footprint.
Our Plastic Health Summit is the congress about the relationship between plastic and health. It is the event where scientists from all over the world gather to present the latest research on this area.
The third Summit will be held on 11 May 2023 in Brussels to meet the needs of European policymakers.
We try to motivate as many people as we can to choose plastic free through plastic diet activities such as Goede voornemens (good resolutions) and Do the Plastic Switch. We also help companies do a plastic diet.
