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January 2025
Q Which of the following four global areas are predicting a decrease in plastic consumption after 2030. 1 China, 2 North America, 3 EU inc UK, 4 the rest of the world.
Answer: Both areas 1 and 3 have plans for reductions. The plastics and fossil fuel industries have other plans. Come 2031 we will see who has won!
February 2025
Q In 2019, Victor Vescovo descended to the bottom of the Mariana Trench (in the Western Pacific) in a submarine. What dispiriting man-made item did he find there, 10,934 metres below the surface of the water?
Answer: A plastic bag.
March 2025
Q what was the most commonly seen bird in the January 2024 RSPB birdwatch?
Answer The House Sparrow with 1442300 reports, the Blue tit came in second.
April 2025
Q In what decade did the first practical commercially available all electric cars appear on british roads?
Answer The 1890s
May 2025
Q According to the met office the coldest recorded winter for England was 1963 (-0.57), the coldest spring was 1891(6.1), the warmest winter 2016(6.47), the warmest spring (10.21) occurred in what year?
Answer 2024
June 2025
The rise in CO2 levels from 275ppm to 420ppm traps the equivalent heat of how many Hiroshima sized bombs?
- Two a year
- One a week
- Ten a day
- A thousand a day
- Half a million a day.
Answer Half a million a day
July 2025
Q Since the 1980s destruction and deterioration of their habitats is blamed as the main reason for the what % drop in UK butterflies?
Answer 76%
August 2025
Q What company is currently the top plastic polluter in the world?
Answer Coca cola with Pepsi a close second
September 2025
Q Measured over a 20 year period how much more potent is methane over CO2?
Answer 84 times more potent
October 2025
Q 2025 As a percentage of the energy used to make an aluminium can from raw materials, how much energy is needed to recycle that can?
Answer 5%
November 2025:
Q: Hedges are important for wildlife and the planet. Our word hedge comes from the Anglo-Saxon word “haeg”, What does haeg mean?
Answer enclosure or “hedge”, some authorities also include “hunting ground”