And we make a drop in replacement for that plastic that's made from petrochemicals.

These boxes are made of plastic.

This chair is made of plastic.

This chair is made of plastic.

The object on the right is made from a confection of different substances, from silicon and metal and plastic and so on.

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.

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's a compound that's found in polycarbonate plastic, which is what baby bottles are made out of.

And you can actually make plastic from obviously oils which come from plants, but also from starches.

Half of each year's 100 billion points of thermal plastic pellets will be made into fast track trash.

Also, the caps are produced in separate factories from a different plastic, polypropylene.

So I communicate through everything from radio transceivers to funnels and plastic tubing.

Artist Dianna Cohen shares some tough truths about plastic pollution in the ocean and in our lives and some thoughts on how to free ourselves from the plastic gyre.

It's plastic pollution.

Here's what our trawl samples from the plastic soup our ocean has become look like.

From these studies we defined two great epochs of the plastic history of the brain.

And the very first CAD model we made, the surgeons were playing with the plastic model, couldn't quite figure it out.

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.

It's a plastic bag.

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.

In spite of my girly man hat, crocheted from plastic shopping bags, they shook my hand.

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.

The displaced are being sheltered under plastic sheeting provided by UNICEF or in huts made from branches, leaving many of those affected without proper sanitation and with very little clean water, medicine or much needed food.

This is a series of lamps I made. This is a Bento box lamp it's sort of a plastic rice lamp it's very friendly.

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

We sort the plastic fragments into different size classes, from five millimeters to one third of a millimeter.

Now look at that plastic chair.

Everything came in plastic, in cardboard.

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Mike Biddle We can recycle plastic

This plastic chair is very cheap.

I showed him and Maria a zooplankton trawl from the gyre north of Hawaii with more plastic than plankton.

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.