Pollution

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Plastic water bottles
BusinessPoliticsNature
Plastic pact: Europe adopts Dutch initiative to make all plastic packaging recyclable
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Afternoon traffic on the A4 near Rotterdam
Business
Netherlands motorists to pay €147 million more in road tax next year
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Greenpeace protesting at Shell oil platforms in the North Sea, October 2019
BusinessNature
Shell wants to ban Greenpeace protesters from Brent oil platforms
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Schiphol Amsterdam
BusinessNature
Greenpeace to hold protest-festival at Schiphol in December
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Supermarket
BusinessFoodNature
Dutch use 26 billion plastic food packages per year
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Emissions in traffic
NatureHealth
Air pollution prompted dozens of Dutch to move
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An image of world air pollution taken by Dutch space instrument Tropomi
NatureScience
Dutch space tech shows India a top polluter; Funding cut for Black Hole telescope
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Litter
PoliticsNature
Too many single-use plastics tossed in trash; Deposit on small bottles possible
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Volunteers from Stichting Duik de Noordzee Schoon dove 2,500 kilos of waste from the North Sea, Sept 2019
Nature
Volunteer divers pull 2,500 kilos of waste out of North Sea
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Tap water
NatureHealth
Quality of Dutch drinking water sources at serious risk: water companies
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Traffic in the rain
BusinessNatureHealth
Randstad residents three times more likely to get sick from pollution: report
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Beach cleanup
Nature
Volunteers pick up nearly 11,000 kg of trash on Dutch beaches
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Cigarette butts on the beach
Nature
Volunteers pick up thousands of cigarette butts on Zuid-Holland beach
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Plastic pollution
Business
ING bank NL's biggest financier of gas-, plastic companies: report
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Airplane arriving at Schiphol Airport
BusinessNatureHealth
Kids growing up near Schiphol have more respiratory issues
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Preparations for the New Year's bonfire on Scheveningen beach, 31 Dec 2017
Nature
Bonfires responsible for 6% of PAH emissions in Netherlands
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Balloons
Nature
Number of Dutch municipalities with balloon ban tripled in one year
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Balloons
Nature
Rotterdam, The Hague also ban releasing balloons
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Balloons
Nature
Zeist bans releasing balloons
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MSC Zoe
Nature
Consequences of plastic from overboard containers on animal life investigated
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MSC Zoe
Nature
Some 220 overboard sea containers located in North Sea
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MSC Zoe
Nature
Soldiers deployed to clean up sea containers washed ashore on Wadden Islands
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The Ocean Cleanup system successfully installed in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, 17 Oct 2018
NatureInnovation
Ocean Cleanup project not catching plastic; Dutch designer optimistic about solution
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Balloons
PoliticsNature
Pollution prompts Den Bosch to ban the release of helium balloons