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

Chemistry gave us plastics.

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.

I basically engineered it.

Plastics are also hard to recycle.

Nina Tandon Caring for engineered tissue

They store the plastics on the roofs.

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

This is actually an engineered blood vessel.

First, there's genetically engineered seeds and organisms.

We had them engineered by the engineers.

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Whenever possible, refuse single use and disposable plastics.

Plastics have overlapping densities over a very narrow range.

And this becomes the currency of the plastics industry.

Plastics have taken the place of many conventional materials.

Monitoring of compliance with no dumping regulations for plastics

In a world that is reliant on plastics, more sustainable production, consumption, and disposal of plastic products is crucial. Civil society, industry, and government must work together to increase the share of recycled plastics, thereby ensuring that plastics costs do not outweigh their benefits.

This is actually a heart valve, which we engineered.

We engineered a virus to pick up carbon nanotubes.

They manufacture plastics. They use large quantities chloroprene and benzene.

But actually, plastics are several times more valuable than steel.

So whenever possible, to choose alternatives to single use plastics.

Increasing the proportion of re used plastics is a crucial step toward more sustainable plastics consumption. To this end, some automobile manufacturers have adjusted their designs to allow for easy disassembly of parts made of compatible plastics, while governments have set recycling target proportions for end of life vehicles.

And these were robots engineered for a flat world, right?

Also, there's numerous pathways that can be engineered metabolizing methane.

Although all 40 kinds of plastics used in a North American automobile can be recycled, the need to separate and clean them makes using them more expensive than using virgin plastic resins. This translates into a higher proportion of plastics in the remnants of shredded end of life automobiles a contaminated mixture of plastics and non plastics that is usually disposed of through some combination of landfilling, incineration, and secondary recycling.

It's mostly many types of plastics and many types of metals.

The traditional way to make plastics is with oil or petrochemicals.

Nano engineered fuel cells could provide the energy where it's needed.

She's engineered an umbrella so she can bam! slam the door.

And then you can see these miniature kidneys that we've engineered.

resulting from surface treatment of metals and plastics (Y17) (decision VII 15)

Durable, engineered, permanent those are in opposition to idiosyncratic, delicate and ephemeral.

And TAP Plastics made me although I didn't photograph it a museum vitrine.

Plastics are a whole other story well less than 10 percent are recovered.

So the traditional ways of separating materials just simply don't work for plastics.

We said, there's got to be a more sustainable way to make plastics.

In the United States, less than seven percent of our plastics are recycled.

Closed loop recycling, in which plastics waste is used to make another product, thus carries significant environmental benefits, such as reduced energy and oil consumption. But the process of separating the petroleum based recyclable plastics from other kinds of plastics and solid waste is difficult, costly, and labor intensive, so only a small proportion is recycled.

And on the right you actually see a carotid artery that was engineered.

These tags have been engineered by a variety of teams in North America.

Given that most of these items are not biodegradable, and are not recycled, plastics waste is building up with serious environmental consequences. While governments have begun to implement new (and often quite strict) regulations aimed at managing plastics waste for example, China banned lightweight plastic shopping bags in 2008 they are inadequate to address the world s growing plastics waste problem.

There's one nano engineered device that cures type 1 diabetes. It's blood cell sized.