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Droppie x Bye Bye Plastic Recycle Rave in Amsterdam. October 23, 2025.
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Amsterdam Dance Event hosts plastic-free rave to cut nightlife waste
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Plastic recycling
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U.S. oil giant cancels €100 million plastic recycling projects in the Netherlands
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Plastic recycling
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Uithoorn man sentenced to community service for illegal plastic waste export
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Empty colored carbonated drink bottles. Plastic waste
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Most Dutch use reusable shopping bags
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Microplastic pollution on a beach
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Car tires, industrial production the largest sources of microplastics in Netherlands
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Crew sorting plastic on deck after System 03 extraction, August 2023.
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€7.5 billion are needed to clean up plastic masses in the Pacific Ocean within a decade
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Empty colored carbonated drink bottles. Plastic waste
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Dutchman will surf from London to Paris to raise awareness of plastic waste
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Plastic recycling
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Plastic recycling set aside by NL residents still end up in incinerator
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Volunteers of the Boskalis Beach Cleanup Tour, August 2023
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Volunteers collected 6,081 kg trash, 27,854 cigarette butts on Dutch beaches
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Microplastic pollution on a beach
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Thousands of volunteers clean up beaches along the Dutch and Belgian coast, Eneco Clean Beach Cup
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Volunteer collects plastic waste
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Thousands of volunteers clean up 200,000 kilos of waste along the Maas river
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Plastic pollution
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Netherlands is the largest exporter of plastic waste in Europe
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Albert Heijn
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Albert Heijn ditches shopping trolley coin deposit system
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Gray seal in the North Sea
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More seals entangled in plastic waste in Netherlands
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Lifeguard tower at the beach
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Dutch beaches increasingly clean
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Plastic catcher Catchy in the Vijfsluizerhaven
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Plastic catcher to reduce litter in Schiedam harbor
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A discarded face mask in Friesland. September 2020
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Stop tossing used face masks on the street, say Dutch environmental groups
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Plastic recycling
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NL recycles less plastic than figures show: report
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Luca - a car made almost completely out of recycled materials by TU/e students
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Eindhoven students built car mostly from recycled waste
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McDonald's
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McDonald's ditching plastic straws for paper
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Plastic recycling
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Plastic waste piling up at recycling companies
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Damrak towards Amsterdam Central Station
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Volunteers fishing plastic out of Amsterdam canals
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Ocean cleanup plan pitched by Delft teen