Whether you’re at home, at school, at work or in groups, your plastic footprint will show you how much of your weekly plastic waste will be recycled or exported, how much is food packaging, single-use packaging.

But most importantly, it highlights the quick, simple and cheap changes, that when taken together, can make an enormous difference.

After months in development, Dr Julie Schneider created a methodology specifically to examine my collection of plastic waste using publicly available data.

By applying hundreds of our unique formulae and methodology to a wider sample, we will be able to give a detailed picture of the plastic problem in the UK through the nation’s throwaway plastic.