But if you go to Santee Alley, yeah.

The people on Santee Alley are not the ones who shop at Gucci.

This guy built a bowling alley in his backyard, out of landscaping timbers, astroturf.

Through the alley, we can see the impact is captured in the red line.

Thankfully, there was an Armani store just outside the alley where Dima had slept.

Not only would it have been burned in engines and added to global warming, but there's a place called Cancer Alley, and the reason it's called Cancer Alley is because the petrochemical industry takes that oil and turns it into plastic and, in the process, kills people.

Now Ted entered this realm every day by improvising in a sort of Tin Pan Alley style like this.

You know, we look down a dark alley or a jungle path, trying to make out a face or a creature.

They make deals with the fast fashion giants and they come up with a way to sell their product to a whole new demographic the Santee Alley demographic.

How can this movement be so passionate about saying we don't have throwaway stuff, no throwaway dead materials, and yet accept throwaway lives and throwaway communities like Cancer Alley?

Take a look You could play it in the dump with some rocks over there, you could play it in a little alley you couldn't hit square anywhere, because the bat hit the wall don't forget the air conditioning and the cable wires.

And if that weren't bad enough, if it wasn't just the production of plastic that's giving people cancer in places like Cancer Alley and shortening lives and hurting poor kids at the point of use, at the point of disposal, once again, it's poor people who bear the burden.

For too many years the Baltic Sea was a blind alley on the political map of Europe divided by the Iron Curtain. It was not a Sea of Peace as the communist propaganda tried to describe it it was a Sea of Threats, a sea of insecurity and lost opportunities.

And so poor people who are making these products in petrochemical centers like Cancer Alley, poor people who are consuming these products disproportionately, and then poor people, who even at the tail end of the recycling are having their lives shortened, are all being harmed greatly by this addiction that we have to disposability.

At a meeting on translational research, a senior member of a contract research organization a company that provides outsourced research services to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries articulated the problem. What really frustrates us, he commented, is to be commissioned by a pharmaceutical company to design an early phase trial when we know already that it is going up a blind alley.