Spronck Foundation supports initiatives and organizations in the Netherlands and Europe that advocate for a plastic-free, healthy living environment and/or provide alternatives to plastic. There is a strong focus on the themes: Single Use Plastic and Fashion.

About us

We enable beneficiary organizations to work towards a solution at the source and create a lasting positive change in our society. Spronck Foundation preferably supports projects that are replicable. The projects supported must align with the organizations objectives and demonstrate measurable impact, such as raising awareness, conducting research, and/or providing solutions.

Furthermore, it is important that there are co-funders for both the projects and the organization. Spronck Foundation supports initiatives and organizations in the Netherlands and Europe that advocate for a plastic-free, healthy living environment and/or provide alternatives to plastic. There is a strong focus on the themes of Single Use Plastic and Fashion.

Single Use Plastic (SUP)

40% of global plastic production is used to make packaging materials. Many so-called Single Use Plastic applications have alternatives. More awareness needs to be raised about this. Spronck Foundation aims to stimulate research, increase awareness, and promote solutions.

Fashion

Synthetic clothing contributes significantly to plastic pollution. More than 60% of all clothing produced is made of plastic. This needs to change.

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Information about us as a foundation

Spronck Foundation supports initiatives and organizations in the Netherlands and Europe that advocate for a plastic-free, healthy living environment and/or provide alternatives to plastic. There is a strong focus on the themes of Single Use Plastic and Fashion.

We are a non-profit organization. View our ANBI status here.

Our projects

This Was the Plastic Age

Author Geert-Jan Roebers, illustrator Margot Westermann, and photographer Michiel Spijkers, commissioned by the Plastic Soup Foundation, wrote a beautiful children’s book about the problem of plastic soup. Spronck Foundation has contributed to making this book possible.

Readers are taken to the distant future, where the plastic problem is long in the past. An archaeologist tells about the time we are living in now: the plastic age, where people threw away plastic cutlery after a party, animals got into trouble because of plastic waste, and manufacturers were allowed to put microplastics in toothpaste.

In ‘This Was the Plastic Age’, children go on an expedition to the plastic age with Dr. Buis, a plastic age expert from 2132. He tells everything about the plastic problem: what types were there, where in the world they suffered from it, and which young heroes tackled the plastic problem.

Three young heroes have been selected on each continent who have rebelled to address the plastic problem. These young heroes have demonstrated, gone on strikes, started petitions, developed robots, and much more.

Plastic Avengers Conferentie (PAC23) – Plastic Soup Surfer

On April 14, 2023, Plastic Soup Surfer organized the Plastic Avengers Conference ’23 where 120 Plastic Avengers, politicians and the business community came together. Result: lots of energy, inspiration, and 9 plans to tackle litter, such as The Big Disposable Show and The National Roadside Waste Harvest Festival. With these, the participants will collectively work on in the coming period.

The Spronck Prize went to Impackt, which developed a working system with an app to return packaging without a deposit to the store.