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The coronavirus can survive several days on hard surfaces such as plastic and stainless steel. In the air, that’s three hours. This result of recent laboratory research raises the question of how to handle plastic packaging to prevent contamination.
31 March 2020 A new report by Tearfund calculated for the first time how many tonnes of plastic pollution, four […]
Ducor Petrochemicals is being held responsible for the systematic nurdle pollution of its factory surroundings in the Botlek industrial area.
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Big Oil, including Shell, invests billions in new plastic and does not get in the way. And it is precisely these companies that do not sign the pact. This makes the European Pact an initiative with which the European countries and companies can make a nice show, but it does not solve the problem.
The Plastic Soup Foundation is shocked by the findings in the Centaurus Pond. We were already very worried about the leakage of plastic by the plastic producing industry, but now the plastic recycling industry is added. PSF is of the opinion that there must be strict rules to reduce this risk to zero!
In an open letter to be published tomorrow by Algemeen Dagblad, a group of critical academics states that ‘from the perspective of future generations, it is too cynical that Shell is seeking refuge in activities that cause another environmental disaster: the production of plastics’.
