May 2026
Image: Indonesia Moluccan island Saparua, acknowledgement to Kees Lafeber
The Speaker: Gert-Jan van Dommelen
Co-founder and co-chair of EndPlasticSoup, the Rotary Environmental Action Group task force to end plastic pollution worldwide.
Experience as programme manager and consulting leader Benelux at IBM corporation.
Teacher for Amnesty International, Knight in the order of Oranje Nassau.
The Talk
EndPlasticSoup is the worldwide task force for Rotary to end plastic pollution, supported by over 1,000 Rotary and Rotaract Clubs in 67 countries.
Their motto is Start today, Step by step, Together.
Gert-Jan told us a great deal about the many projects being undertaken and how they have found that the fight against plastic pollution unites and enables collaboration across generations, cultures and countries.
Plastic pollution impacts our health and disrupts all life, so we should increase awareness and make changes, for example: refuse single-use packaging, reduce clothes washing freqeuency, reuse, share and borrow.
Click here for a one minute End Plastic Soup video
Video showing how many bottles we produce per minute…. https://endplasticsoup.org/how-many-plastic-bottles-do-we-produce/
End Plastic Soup website for Facts & Figures: https://endplasticsoup.org/facts-and-figures/
EPS projects: https://endplasticsoup.org/endplasticsoup-projects/
What you can do: https://endplasticsoup.org/what-to-do/
Think globally, act locally
Speak up for our Planet 