Single use plastic

What is the safest plastic?

• Polyethylene terephthalate

• single-use plastic

• polypropylene

• Polyvinyl chloride

Exposure to plastic can lead to

• birth defects

• cancer

• endocrine disruption

• All of above

How many years does it take for a single piece of plastic to decompose?

• one thousand

• one hundred

• never

• One million

Of the five known ocean garbage patches which is the largest?

• The pacific garbage patch

• The Indian ocean garbage patch

• North Atlantic garbage patch

• Mediterranean Sea garbage patch

What is the most ubiquitous type of 'litter' on the planet?

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Most of the plastic in the ocean comes from ships at sea.

• True

• False

California became the first U.S. state to pass a plastic bag ban

• True

• False

A number in the arrows at the bottom of a container means the container is recyclable.

• False

• True

Nearly half of the plastic ever manufactured was made in the past ___ years.

• 30

• 15

• 50

• 8

One popularly cited statistic estimates that 500 million of these are used and thrown away every day in the US:

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• None of these