A cuppa Joe
Sunday, June 20th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | 7 Comments »* Dave Cooper suggests the following soundtracks for this article: The Coffee Song – Frank Sinatra (A great montage to a great song) and Black Coffee - Ella Fitzgerald ** I gave a lecture today at DSM Resins in Zwolle. As usual ...
Hup Holland Hup
Sunday, June 20th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »** Dave Cooper suggests the following soundtrack for this article: Hup Holland Hup ** 'Oranje boven!' (‘Orange forever!’) sings the toddler when we walk her home from school. She gets so excited seeing all the orange decorations adorning the houses, shops ...
Plastic Soup — now even hotter!
Sunday, June 20th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »** Dave Cooper suggests the following soundtrack for this article: Plastic Fantastic Lover – Jefferson Airplane ** Where should I begin? By saying sorry for being off the air for so long? By announcing I gave birth to a beautiful daughter? Or how about ...
Intellectual property
Sunday, November 8th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »All of a sudden the plastic soup has become fashionable. No self-respecting newspaper, magazine, or broadcaster has ignored the plastic waste problem. I think that's great, and it gives me more and more confidence that Victor Hugo was right when ...
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 ...
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 ...