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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.
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:
Rijkswaterstaat, the Netherlands executive agency of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, uses the geotextile to strengthen banks and breakwaters.
If only Plastic Soup Foundation were allowed to wave a magic wand, we knew what to wish for: just give us a completely biodegradable alternative to plastic.
De Raad van Toezicht van de Plastic Soup Foundation verandert deze zomer van samenstelling.
New research has revealed a peculiar phenomenon: thousands of tons of plastic can escape from the ocean every year in the form of micro and nanoparticles. The wind carries the tiny plastic particles which then, settle on the land.
There may be twice as many microplastics in the ocean than previously thought. There could be more than 3700 microplastics in one cubic meter of seawater.
Companies don’t have to make promises because it is already legally mandatory. Since 1994, packaging has had to comply with so-called essential requirements laid down in the European Packaging Directive. One of these requirements is that the weight of the packaging is limited to the minimum required.
As of July 1, 2021, there will be a minimum deposit of 15 cents on all plastic bottles sold in the Netherlands. This decision was delivered to the parliament today by the State Secretary of Infrastructure and Water Management, Stientje van Veldhoven (D66).
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.
