Quiz: Beat Plastic Pollution

The theme of this year’s World Environment Day on 5 June 2023 is finding solutions for plastic pollution. This year’s event, hosted by Cote d’Ivoire has a colourful range of short videos and fact sheets to share as well as a useful Beat Plastic Pollution Guide.

Have you got a handle on plastic?

Check out your knowledge with the Beat Plastic Pollution Quiz!

1. In 2019, plastics accounted for 3.4 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions. Without drastic action, what will this number be in 2060?

9 per cent

19 per cent

29 per cent

2. Today, over half of all the world's single use plastics are made by how many companies?

20

40

60

3. What percentage of material made into clothing is plastic?

10 per cent

30 per cent

60 per cent

4. When clothing is washed, microplastic particles are released adding how many tonnes of plastic to the world's ocean each year?

5,000 tonnes of plastic

50,000 tonnes of plastic

500,000 tonnes of plastic

5. Which country is the first to introduce a policy requiring all new household washing machines to have a filter to trap microplastic particles by 2025?

Australia

Sweden

France

Time's up