Rotary Club Oldenburg-Ammerland (D1850, Germany) organized a great RYLA seminar in November. It was entitled “Sustainable Development Goals – the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations”. The 27 participants aged 16 to 28 experienced a packed seminar weekend, during which they were made familiar with the SDGs of the UN in a…
EndPlasticSoup presented the initiative at the European Rotary Institute in Basel 4-6 November Rotary Institute Basel Gert-Jan van Dommelen (co-founder and project director) and Marja Ritterfeld (board member and chair EndPlasticSoup Germany) informed the attendees of the Rotary Institute in Basel about the EndPlasticSoup progress and plans. During breaks good interactions took place and new…
Rotary Club Brühl awarded our young ambassadors of Bye Bye Plastic Bags with 11,000 euro. The gift will be used for education booklets, educational training sessions, creation of teacher training and education content, and development of another educational booklet for grade 1,2,3 elementary school. Together with the city of Brühl, the EndPlasticSoup Supporter Club Brühl…
Frans is als 5e taal toegevoegd aan onze website naast Engels, Nederlands, Duits en Spaans. Engels is de hoofdtaal voor EndPlasticSoup en daarom zullen artikelen met een hoge frequentie alleen in het Engels beschikbaar zijn. Deze zijn wel via de overige talen te benaderen.
Rotaract Scheveningen and Rotaract Dubai organized an EndPlasticSoup cleanup with 65 clubs in 16 countries.
Tijdens het Rotary Festival in Maarssen op 15 mei was er volop aandacht voor het verbeteren van de Plastic life cycle: reduce, reuse & recycle.
How do microplastics affect food safety? Dr. Huerta Lwanga discusses the issue of plastic use in agriculture (fertilizer, compost, mulch, sludge etc.). Microplastics in soil affect soil life and crop growth; these plastic particles can additionally migrate through the soil food chain and eventually into the crops. Huerta Lwanga’s work has found that soil diversity…
Bezoek het Rotary Festival en kom naar de presentaties over de projecten van EndPlasticSoup en de Floriade en de inspiratiemarkt in de Fabrique loods 7. Daar deelt EndPlasticSoup plasticvrije zeepjes uit.
EndPlasticSoup at the K-Fair (Plastic) 2022 in Düsseldorf Results of a visit to the K-Fair with respect to chemical recycling. K is the most important trade fair in the world for the plastics industry. Within the context of the initiative of EndPlasticSoup the author, Prof. Dr. Heinz Falk, had to recherche which industrial machinery will…
Rotaract Clubs of the United Arab Emirates (Dubai, Jumeirah, and Dubai Cosmopolitan) joined forces with Liter of Light on October 2nd, 2022, to build solar lights that will be incorporated into solar art installations that shall be displayed during the opening ceremony of COP27 in Egypt and then shall be transferred to light up communities…