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 […]
Plastic Soup Foundation releases the new and free Beat the Microbead app! The app uses machine learning software to read the list of ingredients on packaging and it can identify more than 500 different microplastics.
Without government intervention, there will never be a circular economy for plastics. The coronavirus pandemic is leading to meager oil prices. As a result, virgin (primary) plastic is available at rock bottom prices.
Companies don’t have to make promises because it is already legally mandatory. Since 1994, packaging has had to comply with so-called essential requirements laid down in the European Packaging Directive. One of these requirements is that the weight of the packaging is limited to the minimum required.
23 May 2020 On Saturday, May 16, our treasurer Dieter Croese died entirely unexpectedly. This is my farewell letter. Hello […]
