No Bottle No Problem

More and more great actions and initiatives are on the rise! The following attracted our interest most. The Raw Foundation This foundation is a consumer-facing organisation that targets plastic from environmental life-cycle perspective and their aim is to reduce the amount of plastic (i.e. bottles) and promote sustainable re-use solutions. Just like us! They are championing tap water Just like us! What they do.  Next to raising awareness, making preventive education materials and setting up award schemes, they make plastic free festival guides for organizers and goers! Their biggest campaign.  They led the world's first expedition to explore the length of Africa from Cape Town to Cairo to shine a global spotlight on the scale and peril of plastic pollution, to raise awareness about the true extent of 'transboundery' plastic pollution and to inspire action worldwide. What they found. Over 17,000km bush camping they found plastic everywhere of which 18% were bottles. ...

"We will promote easy access to tap water on the streets of Europe to reduce demand for bottled water" - European Commission, May 29 2018 Breaking news: plastic bottels, Q-tips, straws, disposable cutlery, coffee cups, balloons, candy wrappers and other throwaway single use plastics that take 5 seconds to produce and 500 years to degrade need to banned, announce the EU this week. The EU is waging war against plastic waste as part of an urgent plan to clean up Europe's act and ensure that every piece of packaging on the continent is reusable or recyclable by 2030. Following China's decision to ban imports of foreign recyclable material, Brussels last Tuesday launched a plastics strategy designed to change minds in Europe, potentially tax damaging behaviour of manufacturers, and modernise plastic production and collection by investing €350m in research.  Most importantly, 9 out of 10 plastic bottles should be separated and collected in the form of deposit...