Part IV of the survey tested consumer’s knowledge of sustainability. The majority of survey participants,
at 44.8 percent, got the correct answer to the question about what the chasing arrow
symbol means on plastics. Which is, of course, that the number denotes what type of plastic the
package was made out of. Twenty two point four percent listed that the symbols mean that a
package is recyclable. One person listed that the symbol means the package is made from post
consumer waste. Thirty point seven percent listed that all of the answers listed were correct, while
1.6 percent listed that none of the answers were correct.