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 […]
Babies drink millions of microplastics per liter of bottle feeding. Irish researchers sound the alarm. They advocate more research into potentially harmful effects and better instructions for parents
The European rules on plastic recycling are being tightened up. At present, a great deal is still wrongly included, such as plastic that is exported outside the EU and is not recycled but dumped there. The new starting points show that recycling targets will not be met. The Netherlands, too, uses recycling figures that are far too promising.
This week is EnvironMenstrual Week, a week in which more than twenty European organisations draw attention to the negative effects of disposable menstrual products on the environment and our health.
Because of the oil crisis, Shell has announced a significant restructuring, but investments in plastic production remain out of the question. However, the attention paid to the plastic soup and measures taken by governments to limit the use of plastic will be detrimental to the group, says a Carbon Check report
