{"id":3129,"date":"2025-07-23T11:29:33","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T09:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bvder.nl\/?p=3129"},"modified":"2025-07-23T11:30:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T09:30:59","slug":"its-time-to-ring-the-bell-for-recycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bvder.nl\/en\/its-time-to-ring-the-bell-for-recycling\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s time to ring the bell for recycling!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every day, Bas van den Ende works on effectively separating and recycling plastics from horticulture and consumer waste into high-quality new raw materials. But the biggest obstacles to a truly circular plastics chain often remain unspoken. That is the elephant in the room.<\/p>\n<p>The facts:<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39Insufficient collection infrastructure<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39Lack of real demand for recycled material<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39Market forces that stand in the way of circular recycling<\/p>\n<p>As long as these challenges are not addressed, circular recycling will remain a nice promise with no future. That is why Bas van den Ende supports Searious Business&#8217;s \u201cThe Elephant in the Room\u201d campaign: recyclers are ready to deliver, but they need a level playing field.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s stop beating around the bush. It&#8217;s time for real change towards a circular future!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3122 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/bvder.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"338\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bvder.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/bvder.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/bvder.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bvder.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every day, Bas van den Ende works on effectively separating and recycling plastics from horticulture and consumer waste into high-quality new raw materials. But the biggest obstacles to a truly circular plastics chain often remain unspoken. That is the elephant in the room. The facts: \ud83d\udd39Insufficient collection infrastructure \ud83d\udd39Lack of real demand for recycled material [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bvder.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bvder.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bvder.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bvder.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bvder.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bvder.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bvder.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bvder.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bvder.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}