CRACK THE HYPER-LOCAL CROSSWORD
Across
5. What is the better alternative to single- or multi-use plastic? (2,7)
8. Inside whom does your plastic earbud end up? (3)
9. What is the stem of the cheaper environment-friendly ear bud made from at Spargs Superspar? (5)
12. What is the name of the giant islands of floating plastic polluting all major oceans? (7,7)
13. Human behaviour causes earbud pollution. It goes from ear-to-... None of it is good. (3)
14. Environment-lovers found hundreds of earbuds in the corner of which beach? (6)
16. How can we stop plastic-stemmed earbuds? (4,3,4)
18. When plastic-stemmed buds break down, what kind of plastic is this? (5)
19. Where is the one place an earbud should never go? (2,4,3)
20. Has a tough shell, leathery skin, swims like a slow dream, and dies when a plastic earbud is mistaken for food and gets stuck in its gullet. (6)
Down
1. How much plastic ever produced has been recycled. Percentage. (3)
2. One brand of earbuds made from plastic, Dove, is owned by Premier ... (7)
3. Why does Premier Milling's subsidiary make plastic earbuds? (6)
4. When lazy thinkers throw their once-used earbuds in the loo, they selfishly think “out of sight, out of ...". (4)
6. Why does Spargs Superspar sell cheaper, enviro-friendly paper-stemmed earbuds? Two words, one neutral, one good. (6,8)
7. Which broken system allows earbuds to pollute the water and land? (6)
10. What is the major packaging product sold by shops small to massive? (7)
11. Why does Premier Milling make and sell plastic earbuds (6)
15. It is tiny, spikey, plastic, horrible to life, and holds its cotton buds together. (4)
17. What number of, in percentage points, does the global plastic industry plan to increase production of plastic by the 2050s? (5)