Plastic Free July: How much plastic waste is dumped into the ocean?
While the US is the world’s biggest generator of plastic waste, India is responsible for dumping the largest amounts of plastics into the ocean.
Only a handful of EU countries ban single-use plastics as deadline expires
The EU's deadline to ban single-use plastics has passed, but only a handful of member states have done enough to comply.
Divers pull out 15 tons of waste in underwater clean-up on Vis island
Croatian divers have pulled out nearly 15 tons of waste in an underwater clean-up operation on the Adriatic island of Vis.
Report reveals world’s biggest single use plastics producers, investors
The Plastic Waste Makers Index identified ExxonMobil, Barclays, Vanguard and Saudi Arabia as the biggest producers and investors in single use plastics
Coca-Cola tops list of 10 corporate plastic polluters of 2020
Top polluters are Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Nestle, Unilever, Mondelez International, Mars, Procter & Gamble, Philip Morris, Colgate-Palmolive, and Perfetti Van Melle.
Albania, BiH, Montenegro, North Macedonia have highest plastic leakage rates into Mediterranean
Per capita, Montenegro, Albania, BiH and North Macedonia have the highest levels of plastic leakage into the Mediterranean.
EU to introduce plastic waste tax
The European Union is introducing a tax on non-recycled plastic packaging from 1 January 2021. The tax will be paid by member states into the EU’s general budget. The levy is one of the measures to finance the COVID-19 recovery package of EUR 750 billion. “As a first step, a new own resource will be […]
Dubrovnik to abolish single-use plastics by 2030
The City of Dubrovnik has committed itself to reducing its environmental footprint by eliminating single-use plastics as well as preventing the influx of plastic into nature by 2030. In the next two years alone, the city plans to reduce plastic pollution by 30%. About 400,000 tons of plastic waste is generated in Croatia every year, […]