These boxes are made of plastic.

This chair is made of plastic.

This chair is made of plastic.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

It's plastic pollution.

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.

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

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.

Van Jones The economic injustice of plastic

It's a plastic bag.

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

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

They have thousands and thousands of plastic bags.

Capt. Charles Moore on the seas of plastic

Controls your 3D plastic printer

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And that's a plastic polymer.

The Dirt on Plastic Waste

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

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.

I began to be fascinated by plastic, so I spent four months making eight plastic blocks perfectly optically transparent, as a kind of release of stress.

We automatically throw the little nub of plastic upward.

Plastic is the defining feature of cheap electrical goods.

So I looked at other ways of making plastic.

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.

Upon working with the plastic, after about the first eight years, some of my work started to fissure and break down into smaller little bits of plastic.

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.

I just basically gnawed all this stuff out of plastic.

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Eben Bayer Are mushrooms the new plastic?

Talk about more plastic bags than plankton.

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Dianna Cohen Tough truths about plastic pollution