Bio based, biodegradable and compostable – What is the difference?

Under the guise of sustainability, we are constantly confronted with different processes, materials, and technical terms. In order to push plastic products and packaging out of the market, alternat...

Sustainable food and farming practices: What is the difference between Bio, Organic and Eco?

With more than 1 billion employed people and 1.3 billion worth of food annually, the agriculture industry is the biggest worldwide. Cropland covers around 50% of the Earth’s habitable land. The dow...

Saving ecosystems and biodiversity with the help of the Earth Observation (EO) technique

The Earth Observation technique is collecting data and information from the earth with the help of remote sensing technologies and geographic information systems (GIS). EO observes the status-quo a...

The Ocean Cleanup

The Ocean Cleanup is a Dutch non-profit organisation, founded in 2013 by 18-year-old Boyan Slat. With over 90 employees, they try to complete their mission of cleaning our oceans and preventing pl...

40 tips to reduce plastic use in your household

Worldwide, 359 million metric tons of plastic have been produced in 2020, with China being the largest producer of plastic materials. The United States are generating the most plastic waste globall...

Dramatic natural events in 2021 due to human-made climate change

Even though there are still 4 months left to the year 2021, it has already sent us dramatic warnings that human-made climate change is destroying our planet. The threshold of a global warming of ma...

Plastic pollutions in our oceans and the effect on marine life

The well-known British environment lover, Sir David Attenborough, has described the worldwide plastic pollution issue as an “unfolding catastrophe”. A massive number of plastics are being produced ...

The day we've all been waiting for – the EU single use plastic ban

In March 2019, the European Parliament voted in favour of Directive (EU) 2019/904. Why are we talking about a vote from two years ago, which you have never heard of? Because what they really voted ...

"Biodegradable" packaging in fast food full of toxic PFAS

Based on own research that Stichting Tegengif did in collaboration with seven other European environmental organisations, they say that packaging that gets used in fast food is full of the toxic PF...

Men with a mission: Picking up tons of residual wheat waste in India

After a failed attempt to collect residual wheat waste in November due to the farmers protests and therefore closed borders, this time whilst packing our bags we were really clear that we were men ...