Get Plastic OutWhere’s the Plastic?
A free daily geography game about plastic. Five true stories. Tap where each one happened, then find out what really went on there.
Play today’s round →How to play
- Read the clue. Each one points to a single place on Earth where something happened to plastic: a discovery, a ban, an invention, a spill, a clean-up.
- Drop your pin on the globe. The closer you land, the more points you score. The last questions count three times.
- Read the true story. Every answer comes with a short story, its source and how strong the evidence is. Then share your score and come back tomorrow.
Plastic, from the deepest trench to the highest ledge
Plastic turns up in surprising places: on remote islands with no one living on them, in snow near the top of the world’s highest mountain, at the bottom of ocean trenches and in the air above mountain observatories. It was also invented, banned and cleaned up in very particular places. Where’s the Plastic? turns those places into a quick daily game you can play with friends, with a new round at midnight New York time.
Every story is checked against its source before it goes in the game, and the source is one tap away.
Where the stories come from
Every story is written from sources we open and read. Each one shows its source, the date it was checked and how strong the evidence is:
- Documented event: an event, reported by the source shown.
- Strong: two or more good independent studies agree.
- Emerging: one good study, or a few with known limits.
- Weak: modelled, seriously limited or disputed.
- None: no study has tested this.
Photos are free-licence or public-domain images, credited under each story.
Scoring
Each answer scores up to 100 points: the closer your pin, the more you get. Questions 1 and 2 count once, question 3 twice, and questions 4 and 5 three times, so a perfect day is 1,000 points. Your shared score shows how you did without giving away any answers, so friends can play the same five questions and try to beat it.
Free, every day
The game is free and needs no account. Ads pay for it. A new round starts every day at midnight New York time, and How to play has the full rules and answers to common questions.