Greenpeace Plastics Calculator

Jambeck and kara lavender law science advances 19 july 2017.

Greenpeace plastics calculator.

The flow of plastics into our environment has reached crisis proportions and the evidence is most clearly on display in our oceans. Greenpeace the changes that need to happen are systemic. 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.

Marine birds and plastic pollution marie y. You currently use over xxx items of plastic in a year. Supermarkets are starting to talk about what they need to do. Greenpeace supporters have challenged coca cola to use less plastic while countries like the uk have banned certain microplastics.

Van vleet marine. It is estimated that up to 12 million metric tons of plastic enter our ocean each year. Azzarello edward s. 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.

A results page from the greenpeace plastic use calculator. But we need to go much further to end the flow of plastics into the ocean. That s why we need to urge supermarkets which use so much unnecessary plastic to reduce the amount of throwaway plastic they produce. Take the quiz here.

Refusing disposable plastics like coffee cups and pushing companies or policymakers to do the same could. As it stands the world is on track to. If everyone in the uk did this we d be getting through over xxx pieces of plastic a day.