On Sunday 14 March at 14:00, people in the Netherlands will raise their voices about the climate. Plastic Soup Foundation is also joining. Why? What is the relationship between plastic and climate change?
Eight European banks have lent EUR 95 billion over the last three years to just 14 companies that are responsible for the plastic soup. Among these companies are oil multinationals such as ExxonMobil and Shell, chemical giants such as BASF and INEOS, and food giants such as Coca-Cola and Nestlé.
There is increasing support among the member states of the United Nations for an international plastic treaty. This emerged from the recent meeting of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA), the world’s highest decision-making body on the environment.
Did you know that your clothes release millions of microplastics into the environment every day? Microfibers from clothes, an invisible threat.
Good news! The winner of the Green Challenge of the broadcaster Omroep Max’s new TV programme Iedereen Kan Het! (anyone can do it!) has thought up a clever solution for single-use food packaging – packaging made of seaweed.
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.
European countries are part of the plastic pollution problem in South East Asian countries because shady dealers are free to do what they like. This was yet again the finding of a recent broadcast by Pointer in cooperation with investigative journalists (in Dutch).
By 2025, Dutch supermarkets promise to use 20% less plastic packaging material than in 2017. According to this promise, by 2021 we would be at around 10%.
Today marks the tenth anniversary of Maria Westerbos’ founding of the Plastic Soup Foundation at her kitchen table. Plastic soup, pollution of the environment by plastic, was hardly known at the time. One of her first goals was that everyone in the Netherlands should know what it was.
In recent years, environmental crises have not diminished but increased. Two important initiatives can help turn the tide: criminalising ecocide and setting up a Citizens’ Council for Climate & Environment.
Pioneering research suggests the scale of invisible nanoplastics in the Wadden Sea, and points to the potential dangers for marine life.
Industry can no longer deny adding to the plastic soup. Apologies are now being given for a report dating from 2015
ClientEarth has taken the Flemish authorities to court to block petrochemicals giant INEOS’ plastics project.
Level one of the gas crisis issued. To be less dependent on fossil fuels, we can also use less plastic.
