News Marine Litter

19.05.2016

Das Öko-Institut Freiburg evaluierte für eine neue Studie aktuelle Methoden und Hilfsmittel zum Ökodesign von Kunststoffverpackungen.

26.04.2016

As reported in recent newsletters, Consultic has developed a methodology for recording land-sourced plastic waste with regard to its discharge pathways into the seas. The project was commissioned by the BKV, and is being supported by the FCIO, IK...

25.04.2016

Studies by the Alfred-Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, attracted a great deal of attention in the media at the beginning of the year: Scientists detected microplastic particles in edible fish from the North and...

24.04.2016

According to researchers from the University of Basle, the River Rhine between Basle and Rotterdam is one of the rivers most polluted with small plastic particles in the world. The highest concentration was found in various spot measurements for the...

23.04.2016

Oceans are enormous. They cover seven tenths of the surface of our planet, which is now inhabited by around seven billion people. By 2050, this figure will have risen to around 10 billion. We are all highly dependent on the seas, which provide us...

22.04.2016

For the recent PolyTalk event in Brussels, PlasticsEurope brought together a number of key stakeholders and lobbyists in order to discuss solutions for reducing the discharge of plastic waste into the marine environment. From March 16-17,...

21.04.2016

The Federal Environment Minister, Barbara Hendricks, Lower-Saxony’s Environment Minister, Stefan Wenzel, and the President of the German Environment Agency (UBA), Maria Krautzberger, had sent out invitations to attend the first roundtable on marine...

20.04.2016

On June 21 and 22, the German Environment Agency (UBA) and the German Federal Institute of Hydrology (bfg) will jointly organise the European Conference on Plastics in Freshwater Environments. It aims to promote scientific exchange on the topic of...

19.04.2016

The European campaign on anti-littering and urban cleanliness reaches its climax on May 6-8. In Germany, it has already been launched across the country. The aim of the campaigns is to make people aware of how much waste is discharged uncontrolled...

18.04.2016

On behalf of the "One Earth – One Ocean" association, a small German shipyard in Lübeck is currently building a seagoing vessel which, from summer 2016, will be tasked with catching not fish but plastic waste. The catamaran, which has jointly been...