Amsterdam, 10 March – The decision by the Dutch government to postpone the expansion of the deposit system is bad news […]
Amsterdam, February 28th – The world’s first Plastic Free Aisle will today be unveiled at an Amsterdam supermarket. The brainchild […]
Amsterdam, January 24, 2018 — Everyday, four shipping containers spill into the sea worldwide. Sometimes, these containers are filled with […]
Amsterdam, January 18, 2018 – The expectation was that the British government’s policy to combat plastic pollution would be a […]
Amsterdam, January 17, 2018 — In the spirit of turning challenges into chances, the European Commission presented its Plastic Strategy […]
Amsterdam, January 9, 2018 — Now that China has closed its doors to the import of plastic waste, plastic is […]
Amsterdam, 3 January 2018 – How has the international plastics industry reacted to the resolution embraced by the world’s countries […]
Nairobi, 5 December 2017 – Without dramatic action, plastic production is expected to grow massively in the coming decades, bringing […]
Brussels, 2 November 2017 – Beach clean-ups show that around half of the litter found comes from single-use plastic packaging. […]
Since the 1980s many soft drink brands have replaced their traditional glass bottles with plastic ones, with it disappeared among […]
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 […]
