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Briljant bedacht: hoe de plasticindustrie het idee verkoopt dat de burger z’n ‘eigen’ plastic op moet ruimen
Een paar jaar terug las de lobbyist een artikel over een huilende indiaan die zijn kijk op de plasticproblematiek voorgoed veranderen zou. Het besprak de iconische Crying Indian-reclame van non-profitorganisatie Keep America Beautiful uit 1971. Een indiaan peddelt zijn kano langs vies havengebied, over een rivier vol drijvend afval en meert aan aan een oever vol troep langs een snelweg....[Read More]

River Thames 'severely polluted with plastic'
The River Thames has some of the highest recorded levels of microplastics for any river in the world. Scientists have estimated that 94,000 microplastics per second flow down the river in places. The quantity exceeds that measured in other European rivers, such as the Danube and Rhine. Tiny bits of plastic have been found inside the bodies of crabs living...[Read More]

Strandrobot raapt peuken op in Scheveningen
Strandrobot raapt peuken op in Scheveningen. Badgasten op het strand in Scheveningen moeten deze zomer niet gek opkijken als er een robot voorbijkomt. Het gaat dan om Project.BB, een uitvinding die op initiatief van twee Haagse ondernemers Martijn Lukaart en Edwin Bos is gebouwd door studenten van de TU Delft. Deze Beachbot is speciaal geprepareerd om achtergebleven sigarettenpeuken in het...[Read More]

Coronavirus is causing a flurry of plastic waste. Campaigners fear it may be permanent
London (CNN)All of the defining images of the coronavirus pandemic seem to feature one thing: plastic. Surgical masks, gloves, protective equipment, body bags -- the Covid-19 crisis has spurred a rapid expansion in the production of desperately-needed plastic products, with governments racing to boost their stockpiles and regular citizens clamoring for their share of supplies. Such production is necessary. But...[Read More]

Coronavirus: Starbucks bans reusable cups to help tackle spread
Starbucks branches have temporarily banned reusable cups in response to the coronavirus outbreak. The coffee chain said customers would still receive a 25p discount for bringing reusable cups with them, but drinks would be served in paper cups. Great Western Railway and LNER have banned reusable cups on trains - but GWR scrapped the policy after days. A hygiene expert...[Read More]

Yet Another Consequence of the Pandemic: More Plastic Waste
In some ways, the pandemic has been great for the environment: With heavy industries shutting down and fewer cars on the road, we’re spewing less greenhouse gases and air quality is vastly improving. “The world is breathing better, objectively,” says Tom Szaky, the founder and CEO of the recycling company TerraCycle. “This is the great irony—the world will breathe better...[Read More]

CORONAVIRUS SURVIVES TWO TO THREE DAYS ON PLASTIC
The coronavirus can survive several days on hard surfaces such as plastic and stainless steel. In the air, that’s three hours. This result of recent laboratory research raises the question of how to handle plastic packaging to prevent contamination. American laboratory research has shown that the coronavirus can survive up to 72 hours on plastic and metal. This means that...[Read More]

How can VR help in the fight against plastic soup
Researchers Guido van Koningsbruggen and Tilo Hartmann have joined forces with University of Amsterdam colleague Hande Sungur and have been awarded funding for their research project ‘Diving into Sustainability’. This project will be using virtual reality (VR) as a learning platform to promote sustainable behaviour.[Read More]

4 Reasons to Ditch Your Shampoo Bottle for a Bar
SHAMPOO BARS—HAIR CLEANSER in bar soap form—are the latest trend in hair care products. Usually made of natural ingredients to promote hair health, they’re also easier on the environment and great for travel. Here are five reasons to make the switch from bottle to bar.[Read More]

THE OCEAN CLEANUP UNVEILS PLAN TO ADDRESS THE MAIN SOURCE OF OCEAN PLASTIC POLLUTION: RIVERS
The Ocean Cleanup aims to tackle the 1,000 most polluting rivers, responsible for about 80% of ocean plastic pollution, before the end of 2025. Today, we unveiled the invention to prevent the unrelenting flow of plastic pollution into the world’s oceans. The Interceptor™, under development since 2015, which complements our founding mission of ridding the world’s oceans of plastic. “To...[Read More]

Less Trash, More Schools — One Plastic Brick at a Time
Plastic garbage collected by a women’s group is being recycled into bricks and used to build schools in West Africa.[Read More]

Paddling in plastic: meet the man swimming the Pacific garbage patch
Ben Lecomte is spending his summer swimming in trash – literally. So far, he’s found toothbrushes, laundry baskets, sandbox shovels and beer crates floating out in the open waters of the Pacific Ocean. The 52-year-old Frenchman is journeying from Hawaii to San Francisco via the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to better understand how plastic is affecting our oceans. He will...[Read More]

Plastic free vegetables, Ubud, Indonesia
@thebiogonation Yes, yes, yes. It's happening!!! These are pictures from a supermarket in Ubud. Plastic free vegetables wrapped in banana leaf!![Read More]

Waste Only How the plastic industry is fighting to keep polluting the world
article of Sharon Lerner about how the plastic industry works and is battling for survival. For those who don't understand why we as trashless.earth don't accept sponsor money from polluting companies or foundations that are totally funded by the packaging industry this article explains it all! The students at Westmeade Elementary School worked hard on their dragon. And it paid...[Read More]

How not to trash the planet at a festival
In the UK, where more than 3 million people go to music festivals each year, an estimated 23,500 tons of waste are produced annually. Almost 70% of this ends up in landfill, according to a report by Powerful Thinking, an organization working to improve the industry's sustainability record. Sleep in a cardboard tent Plastic bottles are not the only items...[Read More]

Beweging in de frisdrankbranche: producent van Royal Club en Sourcy lonkt naar statiegeld
De Nederlandse frisdrankenbranche is erg terughoudend over het uitbreiden van statiegeld naar kleine plastic flesjes. Maar achter de schermen is er beweging. Joop Bouma18 juli 2019, 1:00 Langzaam verbrokkelt in de frisdrankensector de weerstand tegen uitbreiding van statiegeld op kleine plastic flesjes. Bedrijven beginnen te beseffen dat met inzameling zonder premie de doelen die de branche in 2018 afsprak met...[Read More]

Canada bans single use plastics from 2021
MONTREAL — Canada on Monday joined a growing global movement with a plan to ban single-use plastics blighting the environment. Announcing the ban next to a lake at the picturesque Gault Nature Reserve in Mont St-Hilaire, outside of Montreal, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he wanted his children to be able to play on the beach or swim in a...[Read More]

Plastic accounts for 60% of litter in English and Welsh canals
Abandoned plastics now account for 59% of the litter found in canals in England and Wales, according to new research which also reveals that more than half a million plastic items reach the oceans every year from the waterway network. The new findings are from the Canal & River Trust – the charity that looks after 2,000 miles of canals...[Read More]

Company Turns Avocado Pit Waste Into Biodegradable Straws and Cutlery APRIL 15, 2019 AT 4:46 PM
Man figures out how to make bioplastic out of food waste, rather than food, making it as cheap as regular plastic. With all the single-use plastic bans coming into effect around the world, there is a demand for biodegradable alternatives. The trouble is some biodegradable plastics are still made from fossil fuel, and 80 percent of biodegradable “bioplastics” are made...[Read More]

We're Now At A Million Plastic Bottles Per Minute 91% Of Which Are Not Recycled
Please read Forbes most recent article: We're Now At A Million Plastic Bottles Per Minute - 91% Of Which Are Not Recycled. At the very end of the article they say this: Globally, we will have to manage the increasing risk of plastics in our environment and the harmful consequences that lie therein. As any global challenge such as climate...[Read More]

Plastic waste dumped in Malaysia will be returned to UK, US and others
Malaysia will return 450 tonnes of contaminated plastic waste to the countries that shipped it, in a refusal to become a dumping ground for the world's trash. Nine shipping containers at Port Klang, west of Kuala Lumpur, on Tuesday were found to contain mislabeled plastic and non-recyclable waste, including a mixture of household and e-waste. Yeo Bee Yin, minister of...[Read More]