Your habit check

Answer each question based on your usual week. There are no wrong answers — every “Yes” simply shows where plastic touches your day. Your answers save automatically on this device.

Heating food

Microwaving or reheating in plastic containers and film.

  • 1.Do you reheat food in plastic containers?

  • 2.Do you microwave food covered with plastic film?

  • 3.Do you eat hot food directly from plastic takeaway containers?

  • 4.Do you heat ready meals in their original plastic tray?

  • 5.Do you pour hot food or boiling liquids into plastic containers?

Food packaging

Pre-packaged meals, takeaway boxes, wrapped produce.

  • 1.Do you regularly buy fruit or vegetables wrapped in plastic?

  • 2.Do you eat pre-packaged meals more than twice a week?

  • 3.Do most of your snacks come in single-use plastic packaging?

  • 4.Do you order takeaway or delivery food more than once a week?

  • 5.Do you buy meat or fish in plastic trays or film?

Drinking water

Bottled water versus filtered tap in a reusable vessel.

  • 1.Do you drink bottled water most days?

  • 2.Do you repeatedly refill single-use plastic bottles?

  • 3.Do you drink from large plastic jugs or water-cooler bottles?

  • 4.Do you drink from a plastic bottle that's been sitting somewhere warm?

Beverages

Disposable cups, lids and single-use drink containers.

  • 1.Do you use a disposable cup or lid most days?

  • 2.Do you regularly buy drinks in plastic bottles?

  • 3.Do you use plastic straws or stirrers with your drinks?

  • 4.Do you drink hot drinks through plastic takeaway lids?

Household

Storage, utensils, cleaning products and dust sources.

  • 1.Do you usually store leftovers in plastic containers?

  • 2.Do you cook with scratched or worn plastic utensils?

  • 3.Do you have many plastic furnishings or surfaces that collect dust?

  • 4.Do you cover or wrap food in plastic cling film for storage?

  • 5.Do you prepare food on plastic chopping boards?

Clothing

Synthetic fibres and laundry shedding practices.

  • 1.Are most of your everyday clothes made with synthetic fibres?

  • 2.Do you wash synthetic clothes in hot or partly filled loads?

  • 3.Do you tumble dry your synthetic clothes?

  • 4.Do you buy new synthetic garments, like activewear, most months?

Personal care

Cosmetics, packaging and contact materials.

  • 1.Do you use a plastic toothbrush or plastic toothpaste tube?

  • 2.Do most of your personal-care products come in plastic packaging?

  • 3.Do you use glitter, scrubs, or cosmetics containing plastic particles?