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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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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!

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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.

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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.

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HEALTH RESEARCHER

The Plastic Soup Foundation, an Amsterdam-based organization that works internationally to stop the “plastic soup” (the ubiquity of plastic in […]

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