Rijkswaterstaat must clean up non-functional ground cloth
Rijkswaterstaat, the Netherlands executive agency of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, uses the geotextile to strengthen banks and breakwaters.
Rijkswaterstaat, the Netherlands executive agency of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, uses the geotextile to strengthen banks and breakwaters.
Amsterdam, 25 July 2019 – Isn’t it nice to drink a cold coke during a hot summer? Coca-Cola sales will […]
Amsterdam, 9 May 2019 – A worldwide network of environmental organisations from five continents is calling for the worldwide introduction […]
Amsterdam, 20th March 2019 – The world has chosen not to combat the plastic soup with a reduction in plastics […]
Amsterdam, 14thMarch 2019 – A small 24 million ‘nurdles’ have been washed ashore on the beaches of the Wadden Sea Islands […]
Amsterdam, 6 March 2019 – State Secretary Stientje van Veldhoven (D66) of Infrastructure and Water Management has promised that in […]
Amsterdam, February 18, 2019 – The Clean Rivers Project has procured a donation of € 1,950,000.00 from the National Postcode Lottery […]
Plastic Soup Foundation organizes a pellet count in the Netherlands Amsterdam, 28 January 2019 – At the start of this […]
Amsterdam, 27 November 2018 – Dutch researchers determined in 2015 already that the number of marine species affected by plastic either […]
Amsterdam, 13 November 2018– Is plastic pollution causing microplastics to penetrate the food chains of freshwater ecosystems? A recent research answers […]
The industry stated in 2018 that the use of plastic microbeads had decreased by 97.6% and pledged that no more personal care products with plastic microbeads would be sold by 2020. However, such products are still offered for sale, according to scientific research.
Journalist Laura Hoogenraad has been researching the reuse of old, shredded carpets full of chemicals in horse riding arenas, and this is what she found out:
In children’s playgrounds, industrial waste full of toxic substances is being used as part of the “circular economy”.
For the first time, scientists have found microplastics in the placenta. Recent research has also shown that babies consume 1.6 million microplastics daily via food from plastic bottles.