Greenpeace Plastics Calculator

Supermarkets are starting to talk about what they need to do.

Greenpeace plastics calculator.

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. Greenpeace supporters have challenged coca cola to use less plastic while countries like the uk have banned certain microplastics. You currently use over xxx items of plastic in a year. Marine birds and plastic pollution marie y.

Up to 12 7 million tonnes of plastic enters our ocean every year. It is estimated that up to 12 million metric tons of plastic enter our ocean each year. Greenpeace the changes that need to happen are systemic. Jambeck and kara lavender law science advances 19 july 2017.

The flow of plastics into our environment has reached crisis proportions and the evidence is most clearly on display in our oceans. That s why we need to urge supermarkets which use so much unnecessary plastic to reduce the amount of throwaway plastic they produce. Refusing disposable plastics like coffee cups and pushing companies or policymakers to do the same could. Take the quiz here.

As it stands the world is on track to. But we need to go much further to end the flow of plastics into the ocean. Azzarello edward s. Rex weyler is an author journalist and co founder of greenpeace international.

Production use and fate of all plastics ever made roland geyer jenna r. If everyone in the uk did this we d be getting through over xxx pieces of plastic a day. Van vleet marine.