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Pollution

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Plastic water bottles
BusinessPoliticsNature
Plastic pact: Europe adopts Dutch initiative to make all plastic packaging recyclable
6 March 2020 - 08:05
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Afternoon traffic on the A4 near Rotterdam
Business
Netherlands motorists to pay €147 million more in road tax next year
13 December 2019 - 10:30
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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
25 November 2019 - 14:20
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Schiphol Amsterdam
BusinessNature
Greenpeace to hold protest-festival at Schiphol in December
10 October 2019 - 08:14
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Supermarket
BusinessFoodNature
Dutch use 26 billion plastic food packages per year
10 October 2019 - 07:38
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Emissions in traffic
NatureHealth
Air pollution prompted dozens of Dutch to move
4 October 2019 - 07:38
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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
30 September 2019 - 15:30
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Litter
PoliticsNature
Too many single-use plastics tossed in trash; Deposit on small bottles possible
27 September 2019 - 12:10
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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
16 September 2019 - 09:36
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Tap water
NatureHealth
Quality of Dutch drinking water sources at serious risk: water companies
12 September 2019 - 09:33
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Traffic in the rain
BusinessNatureHealth
Randstad residents three times more likely to get sick from pollution: report
6 September 2019 - 08:08
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Beach cleanup
Nature
Volunteers pick up nearly 11,000 kg of trash on Dutch beaches
16 August 2019 - 08:54
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Cigarette butts on the beach
Nature
Volunteers pick up thousands of cigarette butts on Zuid-Holland beach
12 August 2019 - 10:20
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Plastic pollution
Business
ING bank NL's biggest financier of gas-, plastic companies: report
16 July 2019 - 09:16
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Airplane arriving at Schiphol Airport
BusinessNatureHealth
Kids growing up near Schiphol have more respiratory issues
28 June 2019 - 09:24
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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
18 April 2019 - 09:12
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Balloons
Nature
Number of Dutch municipalities with balloon ban tripled in one year
11 March 2019 - 14:00
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Balloons
Nature
Rotterdam, The Hague also ban releasing balloons
21 February 2019 - 15:20
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Balloons
Nature
Zeist bans releasing balloons
16 January 2019 - 09:38
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MSC Zoe
Nature
Consequences of plastic from overboard containers on animal life investigated
10 January 2019 - 10:45
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MSC Zoe
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Some 220 overboard sea containers located in North Sea
7 January 2019 - 14:00
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MSC Zoe
Nature
Soldiers deployed to clean up sea containers washed ashore on Wadden Islands
4 January 2019 - 08:58
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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
12 December 2018 - 10:10
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Balloons
PoliticsNature
Pollution prompts Den Bosch to ban the release of helium balloons
12 December 2018 - 08:17
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