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World Cleanup Day 2021: Plastic Soup Foundations celebrates all those heroes who clean up litter day after day.
World Cleanup Day 2021: Plastic Soup Foundations celebrates all those heroes who clean up litter day after day.
The 2015 United Nations Global Sustainability Goals do not include the plastic soup. This oversight has significant implications.
All efforts to keep plastic out of the environment can be undone by natural disasters such as tsunamis and rainstorms. This is exceptionally bad news for the plastic soup.
UV-328 is a toxic substance that the plastic industry often uses. A proposal to ban this substance under the Stockholm Convention is being challenged by industry.
30 June 2021Also published today at Volkskrant Starting today in The Netherlands, you can turn in small plastic bottles for […]
For the first time ever, it was World Refill Day on Wednesday 16 June. Environmental organisations called for this day to draw attention to the solution to the problem of plastic pollution.
To communicate with each other divers have special hand gestures for all kinds of fish and sea creatures, but why not for plastic?
Amsterdam, 30 August 2019 – It is almost certain that at the beginning of 2021 a deposit will be introduced […]
Amsterdam, 8 August 2019 – Coca-Cola has announced that no bottle or can with their brand should be left as […]
Amsterdam, 25 July 2019 – Isn’t it nice to drink a cold coke during a hot summer? Coca-Cola sales will […]
Large European supermarkets can and should do much more to reduce their plastic usage.
With our Beat the Microbead- app, you can scan all your personal care products yourself to see if they contain plastic. Our research shows that 9 out of 10 cosmetics products contain microplastics.
In a letter submitted to Science, scientists argue for a cap on plastic production. It is the only way to stop plastic pollution.
Plastic pollution manifests itself in nature in different ways. Scientists are starting to understand these new and unexpected ‘natural phenomena’.