With this legally binding framework, the United Nations intend to stop the plastic waste flowing to South-East Asia. Norway launched the initiative last year in september. Environmental organisation Zero Waste Europe supported the proposal. On May 10th, more than 180...
Following an appeal of environmental organisation Recycling Netwerk Benelux, the Flemish transparency watchdog (Beroepsinstantie openbaarheid van bestuur) ruled that the port of Antwerp and Flanders Investment & Trade (FIT) should disclose information on the...
The European Parliament gives strong support to the Single-Use Plastics Directive. 560 MEPs voted in favour, 35 against and 28 abstained in the plenary session on Wednesday the 27th of March. The Directive bans a range of single-use plastic items, requires 90%...
The Plastic Pact of the Dutch government and 80 plastic producing companies will lead to more efficient recycling, but it won’t solve the plastic waste problem, the Belgian-Dutch environmental ngo Recycling Netwerk Benelux says today. The Dutch secretary of state...
Many of the 28 members forming the Alliance, including major companies like BASF, Shell, ExxonMobil and Dow, have scheduled future billion dollar investments in the expansion of plastic production. They don’t practice what they preach, research by the Dutch-Belgian...
