Save the date – 2021 Plastic Health Summit
The Plastic Soup Foundation is thrilled to announce the second-ever Plastic Health Summit, to be held on October 21, 2021 in Amsterdam.
Health Files
Canada declares plastic toxic and plans to ban SUP items
Canada declares plastic toxic. The country is taking this revolutionary step so that it can further reduce the plastic in the environment.
What do people really know and want to know about plastic & health?
Plastic is embedded in our everyday life from cleaning the house to the food we eat. We produce 368 million tonnes of plastic waste every year. That’s more than the weight of the entire human population. If current trends continue, by 2050, our oceans could contain more plastic than fish.
Microplastics are a source of bacteria and threaten humans and animals
Biological pathogens and antibiotic-resistant bacteria can grow on microplastics. That this poses a potential danger for human and animal health has been known for a long time. But it now appears that a commonly used water purification technology is helping spread potential pathogens on microplastics.
The invisible threat: microplastics from your clothes
Did you know that your clothes release millions of microplastics into the environment every day? Microfibers from clothes, an invisible threat.
New Research in the Netherlands: synthetic clothing fibers inhibit the production of lung cells
Nylon and polyester hinder the growth and recovery of our airways, scientists from the University of Groningen (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen), TNO, and Plymouth Marine Laboratory conclude in new research into the effects of microplastics and microfibers on our health.
London has highest measured concentration of microplastics in the air
Amsterdam, 10 January 2020 – Nowhere have so many microplastics in the air been measured as in London. The vast […]
Does plastic make us sick? Contact with microplastics may lead to immune cell death.
Amsterdam, October 25, 2019 – When immune cells attack microplastics, the immune cells die. Nienke Vrisekoop, assistant professor at UMC […]
Does plastic make us sick? Strong decline in growth of the respiratory tract
Amsterdam, 22 October 2019 – An average household generates about twenty kilos of domestic dust a year. It is estimated […]
Are we getting sick of burnt plastic?
Amsterdam, 11 October 2019 – The burning of plastic is a major health hazard worldwide, Susan Shaw argued during the […]
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Plastic rocks on an isolated island
The sombre message of stones made of plastic found on an uninhabited island far from the Brazilian coast.
EU ban on microplastics in cosmetics: too slow and too limited
Cosmetics companies selling personal care products without microplastics are calling for the swift introduction of a total ban in an open letter.
Sungai Watch prevents Bali’s plastic waste from reaching the ocean
In Bali, more and more rivers are being cleaned from plastic waste every day. What do Dutch travel suitcases made from recycled ocean plastic have to do with that?
Chemicals plastic cause overweight
Scientists suspect that fat formation in human bodies is stimulated by plastic.
