We are happy to welcome Rotaryclub Firenze Granducato as EndPlasticSoup member! And are looking forward to work together to solve this hugh problem! The club introduced EndPlasticSoup to their members during their annual assembly, the second one is from last week yearly visit of our District Governor who really enjoyed our efforts to sustain EPS.…
Jointly with our Rotary Director Peter Iblher, our President of RotarAct Europe Ben Pinten, WASRAG and ESRAG board members, District Governors and Presidents of over 60 Clubs we invite you to join us for the Biggest Plastic Pricking and Fishing event. Saturday 1st June 5 pm – 6 pm we Join us in Hamburg Center…
This year the entire Amsterdam Metropolitan Area is all about urgent urban planner issues and solutions with regard to making the city more livable, safe, fair, sustainable and accessible. These are the main topics during WeMakeThe.City, which is a festival that will take place from 17 to 23 June 2019. During these days, expeditions and…
The moment is here: Suske’s in Wiske’s 347th album is about plastic! The story is called Lambik Plastiek, it goes about Lambiek who thinks he has found a solution for the plastic waste problem all by himself. To provide more information about plastic, the album also contains an additional file about plastic soup in oceans.…
„People of Action“ is the slogan under which Rotary International puts Rotary’s service idea on the map: „Rotary members share a unique passion for taking action to improve their communities and the world. Read these stories to see what happens when Rotarians take action to create lasting change ‚. See more at www.rotary.org/en/rotary-people-action for background…
We invite you, together with Greenpeace, to tackle the plastic problem at the source. A number of large companies produce a monstrous amount of disposable plastic. Only together can we hold those companies accountable. We are looking for as many organizations as possible who want to speak with us! Do you also join? We will…
Soil and dredging that is used in the construction of roads and dikes and the shallowing of puddles, may contain ’sporadic‘ plastic from 2019 onwards. That is what State Secretary Van Veldhoven writes in a letter to the House of Representatives. At the construction of roads, earth and dredging sludge (sludge that has been mixed…
The two surfers realized that the proliferation of plastic threatened both the ocean environment and the fishermen’s livelihood. Could the fishermen use their nets, they wondered, to pull the plastic from the ocean? This idea stuck with the 2 surfers and they knew it was time to hit the drawing board. After realizing that 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…
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…