I'm also concerned about the plastic in the refrigerator, and I'm concerned about the plastic and the toxins that leach from plastic into us and into our bodies.

And in a plastic wrapped and packaged world, he doesn't hold out much hope for that, either.

I didn't have patience for my body I snapped it into shape.

And some of it is just the idea of creating media media as a sculpture, something that would keep the sculpture fresh and ever changing, by just creating the media that the sculpture is made of.

And I'm hopeful because it's not only philanthropy that's reorganizing itself, it's also whole other portions of the social sector, and of business, that are busy challenging business as usual.

Well the root of this problem, in my view, is the idea of disposability itself.

She has told her YouTube followers that she hopes to create weekly make up transformations in the near future.

This topic of resilience is very personal to me and in many ways has shaped my life.

I guess what I want to say to everybody here and I know that you guys know a lot about this issue is that this is a huge problem in the oceans, but this is a problem that we've created as consumers and we can solve.

It is down cycled and turned into lesser things, while a glass bottle can be a glass bottle again or can be used again a plastic bottle can never be a plastic bottle again.

Neuroscientist Michael Merzenich looks at one of the secrets of the brain's incredible power its ability to actively re wire itself. He's researching ways to harness the brain's plasticity to enhance our skills and recover lost function.

At the end of this process, we have a mixed plastic composite many different types of plastics and many different grades of plastics.

So people that society once considered to be disabled can now become the architects of their own identities and indeed continue to change those identities by designing their bodies from a place of empowerment.

For example, for all the TEDTalks around food, someone summed this up into Food shaping body, brains and environment, which I think is pretty good.

It's a bad thing that plastic breaks down into smaller little bits, because it's always still plastic.

Moreover, most plastic products are made from so called petroleum based commodity thermoplastics. Given that a non renewable resource forms the basis of many plastic products most of which will not last long current plastics usage patterns are not sustainable.

It leaches out chemicals into the flesh of the poor critter that ate it, and then we come along and eat that poor critter, and we get some of the toxins accumulating in our bodies as well.

He's given a little bottle massage, a little bottle medal.

That is like an Anish Kapoor flowing through a Richard Serra.

I turn them into two and three dimensional pieces and sculptures and installations.

Whenever possible, refuse single use and disposable plastics.

It's plastic pollution.

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And we've got to get this into schools, or into communities in many, many ways the ability to tinker, to shape and reshape the world around us.

Literally hundreds of elevator rides were spent with me alone stuffing the pump into my Spanx, hoping the doors wouldn't open unexpectedly.

And if you really look into it, particularly when it comes to plastic bottles, most of it is only down cycled, or incinerated, or shipped to China.

My mom was a single mom who worked at the phone company during the day and sold Tupperware at night so that I could have every opportunity possible.

It is clear to me that, when given half a chance, young people have the most tremendous capacity to shape their own existence.

Now because the plastics are so plentiful and by the way, those other methods don't lead to the recovery of plastics, obviously but people do try to recover the plastics.

It's not just that gyre of plastic that I'm concerned about it's the gyre of plastic in the supermarket.

And both in the production of plastic, the use of plastic and the disposal of plastic, the people who have the bull's eye on their foreheads are poor people.

Plastic just is not going to do it.

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Upon educating myself a little further about plastics, I actually realized this was a bad thing.

Recycling of plastic in many developing countries means the incineration of the plastic, the burning of the plastic, which releases incredible toxic chemicals and, once again, kills people.

So this is a unit with the 12 petals These petals cost about a dollar each they're lightweight, injection molded plastic, aluminized.

And in the process, we started recreating how the plastics industry makes plastics.

It's a plastic bag.

These are my sculptures.

It's a plasticizer.

And that's a plastic polymer.

Michael Merzenich on re wiring the brain