Plastic at the Rotary Festival in Maarssen
During the Rotary Festival in Maarssen on May 15, there was plenty of attention for improving the Plastic life cycle: reduce, reuse & recycle.
Jennifer Jones visits Marbella 19th March
Rotary International President Jennifer Jones visited Marbella on the 19th of March. During the President lunch Willem Falter, chair of Marbella-Guadalmina, the Ambassador Club of EndPlasticSoup in District 2203, presented a plaque at the occasion of the collaboration of Rotary EndPlasticSoup in Spain with Nacho Dean and his expedition:”La Espana Azul”. Michael Foltinger, Founding Club…
Plastic Fasting
Like last year, the EndPlasticSoup Ambassador Club Nürnberg-Connect created a flyer on plastic fasting. Anyone can simply take part during Holy Week.
First Inner Wheel Club Supporter EndPlasticSoup
World premiere! On World Women’s Day, March 8, the flag was handed over for the first Inner Wheel Club to support EndPlasticSoup. Inner Wheel Club Vriezenveen, a club with 40 members in the Netherlands made the start, who will follow? What is Inner Wheel? International Inner Wheel is one of the largest female service clubs…
What are the health effects of plastic waste?
On February 17th EndPlasticSouporganized a webinar on the health risks of plastic waste. Prof. Dr. Volker Harth MD, PhD, MPH elaborated on the effects of plastic waste on the human body in a presentation for Ambassadors and Supporters clubs and Friends of EndPlasticSoup. What are the effects of plastic waste on the human body? It…
Single used plastic from surgeries
A lot of single-used plastic is used in hospitals. 60% of them can be prevented. Watch these videos showing the use of single used plastic in different situations in hospitals.
Successful RYLA for Sustainability and EndPlasticSoup
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 NieMeermüll Plastic Art Competition in Brühl donates 11,000 euro to Bye Bye Plastic Bags
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…
End Litter Trail: 65 Rotaract clubs in 16 countries
Rotaract Scheveningen and Rotaract Dubai organized an EndPlasticSoup cleanup with 65 clubs in 16 countries.
It used to be garbage, now it’s art
Art made of plastic: A joint work by the RYLA participants and the artist and Rotarian Hugo Soto. At the first Spanish-German RYLA seminar on Mallorca, 15 schoolchildren got involved in cleaning up polluted beaches. The young people were accompanied by Marja Ritterfeld, ex-governor of D1850 and member of the board of EndPlasticSoup. She was…