Er zijn steeds meer resultaten van onderzoek beschikbaar waaruit blijkt dat plasticvervuiling een grote impact heeft op de gezondheid. Ongeveer 95 additieven in kunststoffen zijn giftig, maar over de gevaren is nog weinig bekend. We weten nu dat additieven invloed hebben op ons hormoonsysteem (‘Endocrine Disruption’), het ongeboren kind beïnvloeden en de vruchtbaarheid bij mannen…
Worldwide, The bottled water industry has grown 73% in the past ten years. Every minute, over 1 mn bottles are sold globally. This growth poses a threat to groundwater resources, contributes to the plastic-bottle pollution and carbon emissions, and weakens the role of the state to provide universal access to drinking water, see this report…
Last week plastic pollution was discussed at the Africa Children Conference and it will be on the Outcome Statement that will be shared. The Africa Children’s Summit is a continental forum that seeks to give children a platform for participation.
Plastic pollution in the ocean might be enabling the creation of new floating ecosystems of species that are not normally able to survive in the open ocean. Read more in this news item from CNN. In a new study a team of researchers revealed that dozens of species of coastal invertebrate organisms have been able to…
Geofrey Arinaitwe is president of Rotaract Club Muteesa 1 Royal University Kirumba, Uganda In 2022 he started many cleanup and awareness actions and education and he started cooperations with other Rotaract clubs in Uganda and abroad. Currently he runs the Youth for nature and empowerment initiative (CONYEI) with an objective to clean Lake Victoria. You…
In november 2022 publiceerde onze alliantie Onderzoeksinstituut TNO in Nederland een nieuw rapport over Microplastics. Microplastics: voorkomen is beter dan genezen Pas sinds kort is bekend dat microplastics diep in het menselijk lichaam kunnen doordringen (zie rapport van de Wereldgezondheidsorganisatie). De gezondheidsrisico’s van microplastics zijn nog grotendeels onduidelijk, maar onderzoeken wijzen steeds vaker uit dat…
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”.
