Because Ducor’s plastic granules end up in the environment, the environmental department DCMR Ducor has imposed a penalty of €15,000 for each violation found. Ducor claims not to have done anything wrong…
Ducor started cleaning the heavily polluted ports of Londenhaven and Brittanniëhavens in Rotterdam. Both ports are littered with a thick layer of plastic granules, also called nurdles, the raw material for many plastic products.
Ducor Petrochemicals is being held responsible for the systematic nurdle pollution of its factory surroundings in the Botlek industrial area.
Amsterdam, 14thMarch 2019 – A small 24 million ‘nurdles’ have been washed ashore on the beaches of the Wadden Sea Islands […]
Plastic Soup Foundation organizes a pellet count in the Netherlands Amsterdam, 28 January 2019 – At the start of this […]
Cosmetics companies selling personal care products without microplastics are calling for the swift introduction of a total ban in an open letter.
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?
Scientists suspect that fat formation in human bodies is stimulated by plastic.
The Netherlands has submitted a proposal for a European ban to restrict the use of PFAS.
