How the ‘P for Plastic’ got included in scuba hand signals
To communicate with each other divers have special hand gestures for all kinds of fish and sea creatures, but why not for plastic?
Trash hunters
Manufacturers evade deposits by making plastic cans and aluminum bottles
Amsterdam, 30 August 2019 – It is almost certain that at the beginning of 2021 a deposit will be introduced […]
Coca-Cola Recycling Fail: tag your Litterati photo #CCRF
Amsterdam, 8 August 2019 – Coca-Cola has announced that no bottle or can with their brand should be left as […]
Coca-Cola: Let’s not waste this summer
Amsterdam, 25 July 2019 – Isn’t it nice to drink a cold coke during a hot summer? Coca-Cola sales will […]
Camera in Wageningen captures coral eating plastic
Amsterdam, 12 June 2019 – Filmed for the first time: coral eating microplastics. And they even seem to enjoy it. […]
Worldwide call for a Clean Planet: Bring in container deposits to combat pollution from bottles and cans
Amsterdam, 9 May 2019 – A worldwide network of environmental organisations from five continents is calling for the worldwide introduction […]
Disappointing UNEA resolution on plastic soup: Shell and Unilever get their own way
Amsterdam, 20th March 2019 – The world has chosen not to combat the plastic soup with a reduction in plastics […]
At least 24 million nurdles washed up on dutch beaches
Amsterdam, 14thMarch 2019 – A small 24 million ‘nurdles’ have been washed ashore on the beaches of the Wadden Sea Islands […]
Does the Rutte cabinet really want less plastic?
Amsterdam, 6 March 2019 – State Secretary Stientje van Veldhoven (D66) of Infrastructure and Water Management has promised that in […]
Chemicals from plastic found in eggs of the fulmar
Amsterdam, February 20, 2019 – Fulmars skim the surface of the sea in search of food. They do not only […]
Latest news
Revolutionary: France’s ‘très simple’ alternative to plastic packaging
The refill revolution has started in France. A new law will make it possible to shop plastic-free in supermarkets. And that is fantastic news!
Statement Over Documentary Seaspiracy
By now you may have seen Seaspiracy, a new and shocking documentary about commercial fishing, but also about plastic pollution. We can imagine that this raises many questions, perhaps about us as well.
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.
HEALTH RESEARCHER
The Plastic Soup Foundation, an Amsterdam-based organization that works internationally to stop the “plastic soup” (the ubiquity of plastic in […]
