Quiz: Beat Plastic Pollution

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

9 per cent
19 percent
29 percent

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
50,000 tonnes
500,000 tonnes

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