Newsletter July 2024
Read our newsletter about our latest actions and projects and welcome our new participating clubs and director. You can choose your language in the newsletter.
7th Worldwide EndPlasticSoup Action Day 1st June 2024
This year we celebrated the 7th Worldwide Action day. Many clubs all over the world joined our action day. Read more about their activities.
Award Best Twin Project at EUCO Bucharest
The EcoLearn Kit, an environmental educational project by Rotaract Scheveningen, has won the award for Best Twin Project at EUCO in Bucharest. This accolade was achieved in collaboration with the Rotaract Club in Costanza. The recognition highlights the successful partnership and the positive impact of the project on young learners. Designed for school children, the…
Actions World Earth Day 2024
Several Rotary Clubs joined World Earth Day 2024 on April 22.Carrie Hemme from our Ambassador Club in Lake Havasu City in Arizona (USA), coordinated the cleanup actions on Earth Day.
EU Legislation regarding waste and microplastics
Important legislative progress was made at the meeting of the 27 EU Ministers for Environment in Luxembourg in June regarding waste management, including textiles and microplastics and a final agreement on the EU ‘Nature Restoration Law’.
Plastic Free July
Plastic Free July® is a global movement that helps millions of people be part of the solution to plastic pollution – so we can have cleaner streets, oceans, and beautiful communities. Will you be part of Plastic Free July by choosing to refuse single-use plastics? Read more
End Textile waste
How clothing impacts climate change:
Clothes cause 35% of the microplastics in our environment. We need more awareness of the impact of synthetic clothes and what we can do about it.
EndPlasticSoup at the Rotary International convention in Singapore
The EndPlasticSoup initiative created a lot of attention all over the Rotary International Convention in Singapore: from Nacho Dean during his presentation at the main stage to our breakout presentation and our Booth in the House of Friendship.
Plastic free canteens at school
Our young ambassador Nina developed a plan to create plastic-free canteens at schools in Indonesia. This includes awareness regarding the reduction of plastic packaging to avoid plastic waste, and it also brings awareness regarding the overuse of sugar by children causing obese weight and health problems. Stages of develop a sachet free canteen (Aware Manage,…
Nina at the UN-INC4 in Ottawa
Nina at the UN-INC4 in Ottawa Nina was in Ottawa, Canada, end of April, where she was attending a global summit on plastic waste. This summit, the fourth session of the UN Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-4) to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment, took place from 23…