How Sustainable are you?

Fill in this questionnaire and work out your score to see what sort of footprint you leave on the world. Are you thinking of our world’s future? As humans we have developed a life style that is far from sustainable and we must start altering our damaging habits to ensure generations to come have a future at all. Have you ever thought that the trees, the plants and the animals would do just fine regardless of our existence, yet we rely on them for oxygen and food – in other words we could not do without them!! Yet if we continue our unsustainable habits we will not only endanger our own species but theirs too!
STOP AND THINK!

1. At the present rate of use fossil fuels will have run out by
a) 2010
b) 2300
c) Never


2. How often do you use your car?

a) I don’t own a car
b) I own a car but use public transport/ my feet/ my bike where ever possible
c) I use my car for all journeys


3. Do you ever consider the amount of packaging a product is contained in when purchasing?
a) I always consider packaging and even recycle my plastic bags on shopping trips or refuse them in shops
b) Occasionally it crosses my mind, I try to buy paper rather than plastic packaged products
c) It never crosses my mind


4. What does the abbreviation ‘GM’ stand for?
a) Good mover
b) Genetically modified
c) Global market

5. Which of these is a fair trade chocolate bar?
a) Kit Kat
b) Dubble
c) Yorkie


6. How many litres of water does the average UK household use in a day?
a) 150
b) 350
c) 750


7. How much do you recycle?
a) Anything that is recyclable, even if it means travelling to the recycling bank to do so.
b) Whenever it crosses my mind
c) Never