Rex weyler is an author journalist and co founder of greenpeace international.
Greenpeace plastics calculator.
Supermarkets are starting to talk about what they need to do.
We need governments and businesses to take action to reduce the plastic waste in our everyday lives but have you ever wondered how much plastic you actually use.
Take the quiz here.
Sources and links.
Up to 12 7 million tonnes of plastic enters our ocean every year.
Production use and fate of all plastics ever made roland geyer jenna r.
Jambeck and kara lavender law science advances 19 july 2017.
You currently use over xxx items of plastic in a year.
A results page from the greenpeace plastic use calculator.
The flow of plastics into our environment has reached crisis proportions and the evidence is most clearly on display in our oceans.
The calculator itself is relatively simple and features only basic plastic items.
That s why we need to urge supermarkets which use so much unnecessary plastic to reduce the amount of throwaway plastic they produce.
As it stands the world is on track to.
Azzarello edward s.
It is estimated that up to 12 million metric tons of plastic enter our ocean each year.
Van vleet marine.
Refusing disposable plastics like coffee cups and pushing companies or policymakers to do the same could.
If everyone in the uk did this we d be getting through over xxx pieces of plastic a day.
But we need to go much further to end the flow of plastics into the ocean.