Founding a pioneering company to develop technology that monitors pollution and removes it from waterways Every year, millions of tons of plastic waste get into the oceans, putting marine species at risk of extinction. Grosjean, a 29-year-old engineer, launched Ocean CleanX to develop automated pollution monitoring and removal tools that use artificial intelligence and drones…
Rotaracters in The Hague and surroundings continue! On June 25, the hottest day so far, they went to the beach to clean up plastic. A beach clean-up with a good result.
Tuesday, May 7th, we arranged a successful action: 25 Rotarians collected 400 kg. plastic in two hours. Mostly nylon rope in all forms and fashions, bits of fishing nets and industrial plastic bags and containers, all in various stages of decay. Much of it has evidently been there for decades, and was partly infiltrated in…
The Rotary Clubs in Huizen started the new year fresh with the School Challenge, the first concrete campaign for End Plastic Soup Now. The School Challenge wants to make it possible for all primary schools in Huizen to do waste separation. Now it is not legally permitted to have waste collected separately by the GAD.…
On November 7, 2018 Rotary Club Huizen Gooimeer organized an inspiring and informative seminar at De Krachtcentrale in Huizen for the introduction of EndPlasticSoupNow. There was a lot of interest in the meeting, not only from Rotary members of various clubs in the region, but also from many other interested parties. The program was varied…
District 1580 has published a special Magazine for the Water Conference on April 13. In it, attention is paid to EndPlasticSoup and many other initiatives that contribute to reducing plastic waste. Read the article via this link, or the entire magazine via his link. If you would like to come, please register via the website…
Boyan Slat, founder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup, received the 44th International Leonardo Da Vinci Prize in a crowded auditorium of the Rijksmuseum on Saturday 2 June. The prize, an initiative of 11 European Rotary Clubs, is for a young, promising person who is active in one of the many fields of work of…
On Monday November 26th we had an EPSN inspiration & brainwave evening, where the 60 Rotarians from 30 Rotary clubs were inspired by Thomas van Thiel from By The Ocean We Unite, Rosa Leijdekkers from rashless Earth and Annemarie Nederhoed from Plastic Soup Foundation. Afterwards we continued to talk in groups about ideas in the…
On Saturday, June 2, the campaign End Plastic Soup Now started with more than 200 Rotarians and more than 100 children from the Weekendacademie, Plastic Plastic was trained in the Amsterdam canals. The occasion was the Leonardo da Vinci prize that was presented to Boyan Slat of The Ocean Cleanup in the morning. It was…
On February 6, 2018, the End Plastic Soup Now project kicked off. In The Boat House, Hetty Deinum gave the starting signal by revealing the logo for our campaign. The first step has been taken!