Plastic Avengers Conference Amsterdam 2019 - Pakhuis de zwijger
February 8th - 2019To unite the independant fighters in the greater battle against plastic we organised the first conference to empower the existing community.
My current adventure:
Pick up 10
This is the ‘data-revolution’ that gives us the power to confront policy makers and companies. New innovations in photo recognition make it easy, we make it fun. Picking up litter is now a call for change!
Join the movement!The Plastic Soup Surfer fights plastic pollution using his surfboard as a weapon. His campaigns combine plastic pollution awareness with creativity, innovation and constructive calls to action.
Previous adventures:
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Our bottle odyssey
A foil-windsurfing expedition on a board 3D printed from littered plastic bottles. From the Seine river to Rhine rivermouth. See more
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The resolution
With 60.000 signatures we urged the government to add a deposit fee to plastic bottles. See more
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Sending bailiffs
World first use of bailiffs to confront CEOs of plastic producing companies. See more
Achievements
In the spring of 2018 the Dutch parliament instated new policy that will see Deposit Fee on small plastic bottles by 2021 thus preventing tens of millions of bottles entering our environment every year. This policy was based on the ‘Plastic Soup Surfer resolution’ that was adopted a year earlier.
Let’s do something!
We are starting to drown in our plastic pollution. It is endangering all life on earth. We need to act now.
Take action!Social
‘Willen we de Ocean Cleanup zien falen?’
Boyan en de catharsis.
Wekelijkse column @leidschdagblad @mediatmg
#toc #theoceancleanup #plasticpollution
Scene from ‘message on a bottle’ - the 180km record attempt crossing of the North Sea on a kite foil board (visibly made from plastic bottles) and the start to a petition to demand depositors on small plastic bottles in the Netherlands (which resulted in a resolution and policy !)
But also the first team up with film director @eelkedekker - who is currently editing our third movie together; “Plastic paradox” to be released this spring. A movie on our convenience society, plastic pollution and the fight for change.
Want to see the short documentary ‘message on a bottle’? Check YouTube or my website! (English and Dutch versions)
#change #fight #plasticpollution #campaign #advocate #petition #breakfree #kiteboarding #record attempt #North Sea #kitefoil #foiling
Starboard Windsurfing Ozone Kites Manera Mystic Everything Lowestoft @surfpicsscheveningen
Scene from ‘message on a bottle’ - the 180km record attempt crossing of the North Sea on a kite foil board (visibly made from plastic bottles) and the start to a petition to demand depositors on small plastic bottles in the Netherlands (which resulted in a resolution and policy !) But also the first team up with film director @eelkedekker - who is currently editing our third movie together; “Plastic paradox” to be released this spring. A movie on our convenience society, plastic pollution and the fight for change.
Want to see the short documentary ‘message on a bottle’? Check YouTube or my website! (English and Dutch versions)
#change #fight #plasticpollution #campaign #advocate #petition #breakfree #kiteboarding #record attempt #North Sea #kitefoil #foiling
@starboardwindsurfing @ozonekites @manerawatermen @mysticboarding @everythinglowestoft @surfpicsscheveningen
‘This is not Asia... This is Europe...’
Een scene uit ‘Plastic Paradox’ waar regisseur @eelkedekker op dit moment mee bezig is. Release komende lente.
Een eigentijds document over onze consumptie maatschappij, plastic vervuiling en verschil willen maken.
@NatGeo @NatGeoNL
“This is not Asia... This is Europe!”
Small teaser from our film ‘’Plastic Paradox’ that director @eelkedekker is working on. It is to be released this Spring.
This is a scene we shot in Le Havre last September.
Distribution, screening or broadcast info via info@plasticsoupsurfer.org
Le Havre Tourisme LH Le Havre Surfrider Foundation Europe Surfrider Foundation
@socialenvironmentalism
Break Free From Plastic @unep
#plasticpollution #plasticparadox #breakfreefromplastic #endplasticpollution #environment #unep #un
Frans Timmermans
“This is not Asia... This is Europe!” Small teaser from our film ‘’Plastic Paradox’ that director @eelkedekker is working on. It is to be released this Spring.
This is a scene we shot in Le Havre last September.
Distribution, screening or broadcast info via info@plasticsoupsurfer.org
@lehavretourisme @lh_lehavre @surfridereurope @surfrider
@socialenvironmentalism
@breakfreefromplastic @unep
#plasticpollution #plasticparadox #breakfreefromplastic #endplasticpollution #environment #unep #un
@frans__timmermans #landfill #dumping #waste #recycling #plasticrecycling @starboardsup @starboard_sup_france @starboardwindsurfing
ATTEND ONE OF MY TALKS 22nd of January in Wijnhaven The Hague 12 o’clock.
For EMMA (Experts in Media en Maatschappij)
Sign in here: https://www.emma.nl/agenda/foodthought-hoe-creeer-ik-impact
#inspiration #expertsinmedia #plastic #pollution #impact #speaker #speech #presentation #adventure #actnow
ATTEND ONE OF MY TALKS 22nd of January in Wijnhaven The Hague 12 o’clock.
For EMMA (Experts in Media en Maatschappij)
Sign in here: https://www.emma.nl/agenda/foodthought-hoe-creeer-ik-impact
#inspiration #expertsinmedia #plastic #pollution #impact #speaker #speech #presentation #adventure #actnow
HOE ZOUDEN ONZE ACHTERKLEINKINDEREN WILLEN DAT WE VANDAAG MET PLASTIC OMGAAN?
Onze ‘Plastic Avengers Conference’ Amsterdam 2019 in Pakhuis de Zwijger zal de ‘Opinion Leaders’ op het gebied van Plastic Vervuiling bijeen brengen.
#PAC2019 in @De_Zwijger op 8 februari.
HOW WOULD OUR GREAT GRAND CHILDREN WANT US TO TREAT PLASTIC TODAY?
The ‘Plastic Avengers Conference’ Amsterdam 2019 will bring together the Dutch Specialists on the topic of ‘Plastic Pollution. 100 independent plastic warriors and the ‘opinion leaders’ on the topic.
It all revolves around this central question. We aim to come out with a the #plasticdeclaration to aim our future actions and campaigns.
#endplasticpollution #breakfreefromplastic
#campaign #actnow #sollution #vision #strategy #tactic #future #grand #children #declaration
HOW WOULD OUR GREAT GRAND CHILDREN WANT US TO TREAT PLASTIC TODAY?
The ‘Plastic Avengers Conference’ Amsterdam 2019 will bring together the Dutch Specialists on the topic of ‘Plastic Pollution. 100 independent plastic warriors and the ‘opinion leaders’ on the topic.
It all revolves around this central question. We aim to come out with a the #plasticdeclaration to aim our future actions and campaigns.
#endplasticpollution #breakfreefromplastic
#campaign #actnow #sollution #vision #strategy #tactic #future #grand #children #declaration
Our 2016 movie premiere of ‘Message on a bottle’ by @eelkedekker in @omniversum . Our filmmaker @eelkedekker is currently working on our third movie together.
While waiting for that to come out you check out ‘message on a bottle’ (11min) - on our website - find it the bio.
#messageonabottle #endplasticpollution #bottle
#petition #campaign
#government #resolution #deposits
#kiteboarding #kitefoil #foiling #recordattempt #north #sea
#kiteworld
Our 2016 movie premiere of ‘Message on a bottle’ by @eelkedekker in @omniversum . Our filmmaker @eelkedekker is currently working on our third movie together.
While waiting for that to come out you check out ‘message on a bottle’ (11min) - on our website - find it the bio.
#messageonabottle #endplasticpollution #bottle
#petition #campaign
#government #resolution #deposits
#kiteboarding #kitefoil #foiling #recordattempt #north #sea
#kiteworld
-Waanzin!!!- Zo vol met plastic zitten de rivieren bij Jakarta /via @NOS nos.nl/l/2267358
Three years ago I was training to cross the North Sea to England - on a surfboard made from plastic bottles- it was meant as the start to a petition to get deposits implemented on small plastic bottles in the Netherlands...
I managed to collect 60k signatures, handed those over to government together with a resolution they all signed ‘the plastic soup surfer resolution’...
Watch the 11min documentary by Eelke Dekker - it’s on my website (message on a bottle )
#kiteboarding #foil #foiling #recordattempt #northsea #crossing #guinessbook #deposits #campaign #documentary #action #adventure #unique #plastic #plasticpollution #breakfreefromplastic #kiteworld
Three years ago I was training to cross the North Sea to England - on a surfboard made from plastic bottles- it was meant as the start to a petition to get deposits implemented on small plastic bottles in the Netherlands... I managed to collect 60k signatures, handed those over to government together with a resolution they all signed ‘the plastic soup surfer resolution’... Watch the 11min documentary by Eelke Dekker - it’s on my website (message on a bottle )
@eelkedekker @ozonekites @hermandenblijker
#kiteboarding #foil #foiling #recordattempt #northsea #crossing #guinessbook #deposits #campaign #documentary #action #adventure #unique #plastic #plasticpollution #breakfreefromplastic #kiteworld
On the beach for some kiteboarding I already noticed how dirty it was from washed up plastic because of the onshore wind. And bump into some friends doing a spontaneous cleanup . @danielsiepman @theoceancleanup
“Een krasje op de al slingerende sloopkogel” - 15 ZOE’s stoten net zoveel broeikasgas uit als alle autos ter wereld.
Wekelijkse column voor @leidschdagblad @mediatmg
#klimaat #transport #containers #Containerramp #unesco #broeikasgas #Paris #katowice #wereldeconomie
Events
Upcoming events
Presentation at Kraft Heinz
March 27th - 2019Presenting our vision on Plastic Pollution at the Kraft Heinz Team Days - Theme: Sustainablity at their Innovation Center in Nijmegen 27th of March
KEYNOTE BERLIN
April 9th - 2019'Plastics in the Environment'Conference organized by German ministry (BMBF) Berlin www.bmbf-plastic.de
Past events
Nairobi Blue Economy Conference presentation
November 26th - 2018Inspirational speech for policymakers at Global Blue Economy Conference (co hosted by Japan and Canada). Invite by ministery of foreign affairs Netherlands
Film bij Verenigde Naties
June 5th - 2018Film vertoning en Plastic Soup Surfer presentatie in 'Palais de Nations' van de UN in Geneve op 'World Environment Day' - Thema Plastic Pollution
Filmvertoning bij Heineken
March 6th - 2018Vertoning 'From Source to Sea' en presentatie bij Heineken hoofdkantoor Zoeterwoude
Film vertoning in Tweede Kamer
February 22nd - 201822 feb. 14u "From Source to Sea" wordt vertoond voor Kamerleden en geinteresseerden. Aansluitend discussie. AANMELDEN