But when I got there, I found lots of plastic garbage and other debris.

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.

Capt. Charles Moore of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation first discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch an endless floating waste of plastic trash. Now he's drawing attention to the growing, choking problem of plastic debris in our seas.

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.

According to two studies made in 1976 and 1978 in the Bering Sea and the Gulf of Alaska, 40 to 60 per cent of bottom trawls collected plastic and metal debris.

It's plastic pollution.

Some plastic, eh?

A plastic hammock?

It's a plastic bag.

glass, plastic, terry cloth.

Acronylon. Fibrous resistant. Plastic.

Plastic operations, voice lessons.

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.

Controls your 3D plastic printer

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And that's a plastic polymer.

The Dirt on Plastic Waste

We're using plastic explosives now.

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

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.

One is if 80 to 90 percent of what we're finding in the ocean of the marine debris that we're finding in the ocean is plastic, then why don't we call it what it is.

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.

Plastic champagne glasses, just in case.

Glass eyes, plastic noses, reconstructed cheekbones.

Plastic bags are deadly for babies.

It looks like a plastic bomb.

Plastic surgeons call it a dermatome.

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

In a survey conducted in Newport, Oregon, United States of America, 58 per cent of the fishermen indicated that they had experienced vessel problems owing to plastic debris and incurred an average expense of 2,725 per vessel.

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

Van Jones The economic injustice 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

Plastic explosives Other explosives and their precursors.