And the last material I'm going to talk about today is plastic, and, of course, my toaster had to have a plastic case.

We push that material to extruders where we melt it, push it through small die holes, make spaghetti like plastic strands.

The bronze is nice hard, durable material that could roll on the ground.

They used to use a plastic packaging buffer, but we were able to give them the exact same physical performance with our grown material.

I've been working with plastic bags, which I cut up and sew back together as my primary material for my artwork for the last 20 years.

The middle line is millions of tons of plastic debris accumulating in our ocean, and the third line is radioactive material leaking from Fukushima nuclear power plant in the Pacific Ocean.

It's plastic pollution.

There are four categories of plastics recycling primary recycling, in which the plastic is re used in the same application secondary recycling, in which material (mixed or contaminated) is used in less demanding applications tertiary recycling, in which the plastic is converted into monomers or chemicals and quaternary recycling, in which only energy is recovered through incineration. Each of these methods recovers a different amount of the embodied energy of the plastic item.

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.

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.

It's a plastic bag.

Mauritius is actively considering adhering to the two remaining ones namely the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material and the Convention on the Marking of Plastic Explosives for the purpose of Detection.

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.

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

Controls your 3D plastic printer

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And that's a plastic polymer.

The Dirt on Plastic Waste

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

It's hard enough to learn to get the skills, try to learn all the material you have to absorb at any task you're taking on.

We must make the utmost effort to reduce the use of plastic packaging, and also to recycle all waste plastic.

Now look at that plastic chair.

Everything came in plastic, in cardboard.

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Mike Biddle We can recycle plastic

These boxes are made of plastic.

This chair is made of plastic.

This chair is made of plastic.

This plastic chair is very cheap.

And these are just a few examples of companies that are buying our plastic, replacing virgin plastic, to make their new products.

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Eben Bayer Are mushrooms the new plastic?

Van Jones The economic injustice of plastic

Talk about more plastic bags than plankton.

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Dianna Cohen Tough truths about plastic pollution

Plastic explosives Other explosives and their precursors.

They have thousands and thousands of plastic bags.

Plastic just is not going to do it.

Capt. Charles Moore on the seas of plastic

We had to replace them with recyclable plastic.

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A plastic dish will melt on the stove.

So a lot of people remember the plastic bottle anyway, but we really talked about marine debris and plastic in the course of that one.

We've been talking a lot about the horrific impacts of plastic on the planet and on other species, but plastic hurts people too, especially poor people.