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 […]
Amsterdam, January 24, 2018 — Everyday, four shipping containers spill into the sea worldwide. Sometimes, these containers are filled with […]
Amsterdam, January 17, 2018 — In the spirit of turning challenges into chances, the European Commission presented its Plastic Strategy […]
Amsterdam, 12 December 2017 – Plastic bags gradually disintegrate in the marine environment as the result of the effects of […]
Amsterdam, 2 December 2017 – British researchers have developed a cost-effective method of detecting and counting microplastics in water. They […]
Alicante, 18 October 2017 – Our long awaited app, My Little Plastic Footprint, had its soft launch this morning. […]
Up to now, mechanical methods for recycling PET bottles have only been able to be applied six times on the […]
Many organisms, animals and plants alike, live on or in the sediment. Plastic bags that sink to the bottom of […]
Since the massive introduction of plastic after the Second World War, 8.3 billion tons of plastic has been produced. Of […]
The Algalita Marine Research and Education Foundation has returned from an expedition to the South Pacific Gyre in the South […]
Until now Antarctica was seen as a pristine and untouched wilderness with relatively little plastic pollution, but the opposite is […]
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!
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.
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.
The Plastic Soup Foundation, an Amsterdam-based organization that works internationally to stop the “plastic soup” (the ubiquity of plastic in […]