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

Are you a virgin? Virgin?

It's plastic pollution.

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.

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.

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Controls your 3D plastic printer

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And that's a plastic polymer.

The Dirt on Plastic Waste

Such developments would encourage industry to re use or recycle more parts. 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.

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

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

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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.

So, you know, Virgin Atlantic, Virgin Records I guess it all started with a magazine called Student.

Virgin Mary in Clearwater, Florida.

Is it the Virgin Mary?

Are you still a virgin?

Are you still a virgin?

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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.

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

They have thousands and thousands of plastic bags.

Plastic just is not going to do it.

Capt. Charles Moore on the seas of plastic