18 May 2020
From the end of September 2019 until the beginning of January 2020, 65 Utrecht households tried to learn as much as possible about the separation and collection of plastic waste. They learnt a lot how to treat the plastic waste and Utrecht learnt much more about their needs. From the beginning, it was quite clear that the inhabitants need much more and clear information how to treat the waste inside a house. They find it not easy to understand...
14 May 2020
Italy is preparing for the next phase in its battle against COVID-19. Over the next few months, it will gradually ease lockdown restrictions. The Polytechnic University of Turin has estimated that during this period the country will need 1 billion masks and 500 million gloves per month. If only 1% of those masks are incorrectly disposed, the environment would have to deal with 40,000 of extra plastic pollution per month.
Italy is, of c...
14 April 2020
The Plastics Circularity Multiplier conference in Brussels will take place on 14 October 2020. The conference was originally planned for 10 June, but the Corona-crisis made postponement inevitable. The organizers note that “under these difficult circumstances, our consideration must be for the health of everyone involved in the event.”
In October 2019 PlastiCircle became one of the 21 European projects to join The Plastics ...
24 March 2020
15 European governments and 66 companies have signed the European Plastics Pact. The pact, initiated by the French Ministry of the Ecological and Inclusive Transition, the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management and the Danish Ministry of Environment and Food, commits its participants to a set of ambitious targets for 2025. The ultimate aim of this public-private coalition is to achieve a circular European plastics economy that a...