ACTIONS & CAMPAIGNS
Kite surfing across the North Sea, a 1000km sup tour across the Rhine, a 55 km sup tour through The Netherlands visiting schools and meeting representatives of the packaging business ...
Check out our campaigns, expeditions and successes achieved, such as deposits on plastic bottles and cans, waste separation in schools, paper instead of plastic wrappers, plastic polluting products removed from the stores and new campaigns.
Actions and Campaigns 2021
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Cup Count Campaign
On July 3, the SUP Directive goes into effect. By 2023, companies will become responsible for collecting and cleaning up their packaging. Our Cup Count Campaign already focuses on one such product: disposable plastic (containing) cups. We want to provide input on the implementation of the SUP Directive with huge amounts of photos of littered disposable cups. Will you help us?
#MissionMars
In the meantime we continue the #MissionMars Campaign. Help us showing the Mars Company the impact of their brands on the environment!
Download the Plastic Avengers App and make photo's of littered plastic Mars wrappers: Mars, Snickers, Bounty, M&M's, Milky Way and so on. We take them to Mars and hold the company accountable.
Plastic Talkshows
In 2021 we started our monthly Plastic Talkshows. We discuss the best ways to combat the plastic soup with scientists, activists, politicians and business people.
Last Plastic Talkshow June 15: facts and fables about cucumber wraps and other plastics.
Campaigns:
CampaignBright Binners Tour
550 kilometer sup Tour for waste separation in our Dutch classrooms! Result: resolution in parlaiment coming. See more
CampaignOperation SplashPlastic
Stopping plastic designed to be thrown in our streets and environment. Result: ban signed by Dutch Retail. 💦! See more
CampaignOperation Crackling ball
From the street to policy. Result campaign: Recalls and ban on plastic in fireworks in the Netherlands and pending in Europe See more
CampaignStopping plastic sweets wrapper pollution
First Zwerfinator X PSS campaign. Result: sweet wrappers changed from plastic to wax paper. See more
CampaignThe Plastic Avengers app
The easiest tool to make a difference in the fight against plastic pollution. Join our latest mission! Lets hunt data! See more
CampaignPlastic Avengers
Plastic Avengers need to work together to fight plastic pollution effectively. One goal, one vision. See more
CampaignSurfer breaks political deadlock
Surfer breaks political deadlock. Decision on deposits for small plastic bottles now official. See more
CampaignMeeting CEO's with the bailiff
World first use of bailiffs and a formal notice for CEOs of plastic producing companies. See more
CampaignPlastic Soup Surfer resolution
With 60.000 signatures we urged the government to add a deposit fee to plastic bottles. See more
Expeditions
ExpeditionThe Bottle Odyssey
World's first 3D printed windsurfboard from recycled plastic. An expedition from France and back to the Netherlands See more
ExpeditionFrom Source to Sea
A 1000km Stand Up Paddle expedition on the river Rhine to confront companies with the plastic packaging found in the river. See more
ExpeditionMessage on a bottle
A 180km record attempt to cross the North Sea on a board from plastic bottles to get deposit fee implemented. See more
ExpeditionPlastic Hunters
A sailing expedition around the Baltic Sea and North Sea. Making educational VLOGs with my 8y old daughter See more
ExpeditionThe first plastic soup board
The first surfboard Merijn Tinga made was meant as an artwork. The record attempt on it made him the Plastic Soup Surfer. See more
Documentaries
DocumentaryPlastic Paradox
WATCH: A personal movie about ideals, determination and the search of one man who wants make a difference. See more
DocumentaryFrom Source to Sea - The Movie
WATCH NOW: The 49min movie that been shown on National Geographic several times. See more
DocumentaryMessage on a bottle - short docu
WATCH NOW: An incredible adventure & the runup to bottle deposits in the Netherlands. (12 min director Eelke Dekker) See more
DocumentaryPlastic Soup Surfer - Dutch shores
WATCH NOW: A wild idea, a gas torch and 'plastic soup'. The birth of the Plastic Soup Surfer. Director Bie Muusze (Dutch) See more
FAQ, Presentations, Schools
PresentationPlastic Soup Surfer (online) presentations
Let the Plastic Soup Surfer inspire your event. Vision, clear "calls to action" and storytelling! See more
VideoVlog and podcast series
Video reports from the battle field See more