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Ducor tries to shift the responsibility for plastic pollution

Because Ducor’s plastic granules end up in the environment, the environmental department DCMR Ducor has imposed a penalty of €15,000 for each violation found. Ducor claims not to have done anything wrong…

Plastic manufacturer Ducor begins promised cleaning action

Ducor started cleaning the heavily polluted ports of Londenhaven and Brittanniëhavens in Rotterdam. Both ports are littered with a thick layer of plastic granules, also called nurdles, the raw material for many plastic products.

Ducor Petrochemicals to be held responsible for plastic nurdle pollution

Ducor Petrochemicals is being held responsible for the systematic nurdle pollution of its factory surroundings in the Botlek industrial area.

At least 24 million nurdles washed up on dutch beaches

Amsterdam, 14thMarch 2019 – A small 24 million ‘nurdles’ have been washed ashore on the beaches of the Wadden Sea Islands […]

Extensive loss of pellets at sea remains without sanctions

Plastic Soup Foundation organizes a pellet count in the Netherlands Amsterdam, 28 January 2019 – At the start of this […]

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Recycled PET Plastic is not a safe packaging material for food and drink

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AMBITIOUS EU PLAN TO CHANGE THE TEXTILE SECTOR

The European Commission has published its sustainable textile strategy. Will synthetic microfibres really be kept out of the environment?

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