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Supporters like you enable us to investigate, campaign and protect the environment in New Zealand and around the world.
Every 60 seconds a garbage truck of plastic enters our oceans. We work hard to expose and stop environmental abuses through peaceful, direct action to protect our oceans, forests, and climate.
A member of the Greenpeace NZ team will contact you so that we can hopefully support this important cause together. Be sure to keep a watch over your phone to ensure we don’t miss you.
Find out the correct answers to the quiz below:
1. Guess how often 1 entire garbage truck full of plastic enters our oceans…
- Every day
- Every 8 hours
- Every hour
- Every minute
2. Every 60 seconds a garbage truck of plastic enters our oceans. The Pacific garbage patch is a floating island of plastic bags, bottles, and other rubbish… guess how large it is?
- A few rugby pitches
- The whole South Island of New Zealand
- 9 times the size of New Zealand
3. There are 51 trillion microplastic particles in the sea today, that’s 500 times more than the number of stars in our galaxy! Now… of the trillions of plastic products made each year, how much of it do you think ever gets recycled?
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