Upcycling factory, Global Grant, Vizianagaram, East Coast India
Read more about this joint plastic recycle and youth training program initiated by RC Amsterdam-Nieuwendam &
RC Vizianagaram in India
How many plastic bottles do we produce?
How many plastic bottles do we produce? Our planet is flooded with single use plastics such as plastic bottles. Did you know that globally, we produce about 1 million plastic bottles every minute? What does that number even look like? This Studio Birthplace production – made with CG partners Method and Madness – makes the…
Worldwide EndPlasticSoup Action Day June 1, 2024
Rotarians We are People of Action, do organise your World Wide EndPlasticSoup Action day, show your club at your environment and organise a clean -up, a priknick, with your local for school, sportclub, ploggers, be creative and have fun!
Make@thon student competition: Our future with plastics?!
How do sustainability and plastic fit together? 42 committed students from Emsland and the county of Bentheim in D1850 (Germany) dealt with this question. On the initiative of the regional plastics network „Ems-Achse“ , they took part in the make@thon competition. They worked in small groups for a week to process and correct myths and…
Where the Western world send their plastic scrap
All over the world countries are exporting their plastic waste to other destinations. The UK exports almost 430.000 tons and the USA almost 790.000 tons (figures 2018). Source: https://www.boell.de/en/plasticatlas; Graphic: PLASTIC ATLAS | Appenzeller/Hecher/Sack, CC BY 4.0. All countries should stop exporting their waste problem to other countries. Source: https://www.boell.de/en/plasticatlas More facts and figures Heinrich Böll…
Cooperation Clubs in the Balkan Countries
From 15. February 2024 Rotary Club Zagorje Kum is the official Ambassador of EndPlasticSoup for the Balkan region: Rotary and Rotaract clubs from Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, North Macedonia, Kosovo and Albania. Cooperation with the clubs and region from Troglav to Ohrid. We are happy and proud to be with you and helping…
Cooperation Rotary ICC and Rotary EndPlasticSoup
The Rotary ICC Executive Council and the Rotary EndPlasticSoup International Board signed a MoU on the 9th of February in London. It is intended to be the start of joint actions.
Only 0.5% of the plastic in the ocean floats on the surface of the water, the rest drifts deeper in the water
Plastic that ends up in the sea accumulates on beaches, in the water and on the seabed. Most of the plastic pollution is under water. Marine organisms such as fish absorb (micro) plastics and these end up in our food chain. Source: https://www.grida.no/resources/6904 Maphoto/Riccardo Pravettoni) https://www.grida.no/resources/6904