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The European Commission and Pellet Loss

Amsterdam, January 24, 2018 — Everyday, four shipping containers spill into the sea worldwide. Sometimes, these containers are filled with […]

Plastic Strategy: The European Commission’s Vision for Plastic

Amsterdam, January 17, 2018 — In the spirit of turning challenges into chances, the European Commission presented its Plastic Strategy […]

Gammarids shred a single plastic bag into 1.75 million pieces

Amsterdam, 12 December 2017 – Plastic bags gradually disintegrate in the marine environment as the result of the effects of […]

New measurement method: many more microplastics in sea than thought

Amsterdam, 2 December 2017 – British researchers have developed a cost-effective method of detecting and counting microplastics in water. They […]

Softlaunch My Little Plastic Footprint

  Alicante, 18 October 2017 – Our long awaited app, My Little Plastic Footprint, had its soft launch this morning. […]

Ioniqa technology enables limitless PET recycling

Up to now, mechanical methods for recycling PET bottles have only been able to be applied six times on the […]

Bioplastic bags endangers life at ocean floor

Many organisms, animals and plants alike, live on or in the sediment. Plastic bags that sink to the bottom of […]

New figures about plastic soup

Since the massive introduction of plastic after the Second World War, 8.3 billion tons of plastic has been produced. Of […]

Garbage patch larger than France and Germany discovered in the South Pacific Ocean

The Algalita Marine Research and Education Foundation has returned from an expedition to the South Pacific Gyre in the South […]

Microplastic pollution in Antarctica extremely serious

Until now Antarctica was seen as a pristine and untouched wilderness with relatively little plastic pollution, but the opposite is […]

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Cosmetics industry misleads consumers and government

The industry stated in 2018 that the use of plastic microbeads had decreased by 97.6% and pledged that no more personal care products with plastic microbeads would be sold by 2020. However, such products are still offered for sale, according to scientific research.

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How hazardous carpet waste ends up in horse riding arenas

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:

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Children’s playgrounds are a source of toxic microplastics

In children’s playgrounds, industrial waste full of toxic substances is being used as part of the “circular economy”.

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Are babies sufficiently protected against microplastics?

For the first time, scientists have found microplastics in the placenta. Recent research has also shown that babies consume 1.6 million microplastics daily via food from plastic bottles.

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