Table 1.

Overall use (in a one week period) of plastic items reported between 24th January and 1st December 2020. Total number of respondents = 1937. Usage per hour on-the-go is across all respondents, calculated from the total number of items used (13,544 items) divided by total number of hours on-the-go for all respondents (59,492 h). All data and calculations are per week.

Item	Number of users per week	Number of people not using per week	% of respondents using item	Total number used per week	% of total items used	Average number used per respondent per week	Average number used per user per week	No used per hr on-the-go
Bags	445	1492	23.0 %	1007	7.44 %	0.52	2.26	0.02
Bottles	497	1440	25.7 %	1255	9.27 %	0.65	2.53	0.02
Condiment sachets	290	1647	15.0 %	711	5.25 %	0.37	2.45	0.01
Cups	476	1461	24.6 %	962	7.10 %	0.50	2.02	0.02
Food wrappers	1341	596	69.2 %	7267	53.7 %	3.75	5.42	0.12
Straws, stirrers, cutlery	311	1626	16.1 %	743	5.49 %	0.38	2.39	0.01
Takeaway containers	679	1258	35.1 %	1599	11.8 %	0.83	2.35	0.03
Total (all items)	–	–	–	13,544	100 %	7.00	–	0.23