A little correction
Sunday, November 8th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »It's been a while since I blogged. Not because I haven't had anything to say ... everyday I'm uncovering new positive and negative facts about plastic. On the one hand I'm amazed at all the initiatives that already exist in ...
Not for the fainthearted
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »The topic of the toxicity of plastic has been discussed on various radio broadcasts. And this did not go by unnoticed. I received a lot of questions about which types of plastic are OK to use and which are not. Charles ...
Expert on the air
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »As I wrote earlier, I was interviewed by Radio Kassa about a number of things, including the detrimental effects of Bisphenol A in baby bottles. I received a phone call today ... In ten day's time, a toxicologist will be on ...
There’s nothing wrong…
Friday, May 8th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »I was interviewed about Plastic Soup on Kassa Radio (a consumer advocacy program). There, among other things, I had the opportunity to explain how plastic contains toxins such as Bisphenol A in polycarbonate (the transparent plastic used in baby bottles) ...
Fifteen minutes of fame
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »De Lemniscaatkrant (The Lemniscaat Newspaper) asked me to write a column about Plastic Soup. I wrote the following: Andy Warhol said: “In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.” I used to dream that one day when I was ...
Running score
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »The time given me to submerge myself in the Plastic Soup was too short to be able to study all aspects of it—all the problems that come with plastic waste, and all the available solutions. Not even a whole life ...
An acid sea
Monday, February 2nd, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 3 Comments »I received an email from the translator. The subject by which it arrived in my in box did not bode very well: “Some more depressing news ...” The email contained a link to the BBC news website. An article was posted there ...
Money, Money, Money
Sunday, February 1st, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »In discussions about war and disputes, the publisher always says: “When you want to know what's really going on—look for who has something to gain.” Profit. That appeared to be the operative word in discussions with Jacques Joosten, managing director of ...
Fresh Snow
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »Tonight we fly back to the Netherlands. The extreme weather conditions that we experienced in the United States were symbolic of my mood swings; the result of the interviews I recorded and the information I read. On the West Coast it ...
On the day that Obama became president
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »I believe that we can solve the plastic problem. I believe we we can make this world a cleaner, better, safer place for ourselves and for our children. I believe we can achieve what today may seem impossible. “Now, there are some who ...