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.

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

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I turn them into two and three dimensional pieces and sculptures and installations.

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

It is down cycled and turned into lesser things, while a glass bottle can be a glass bottle again or can be used again a plastic bottle can never be a plastic bottle again.

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At the end of this process, we have a mixed plastic composite many different types of plastics and many different grades of plastics.

There were plenty of models for that, in Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, and many artists who were making beautiful art and sculpture with junk materials.

Such plastics bags shall be capable of passing the tests for tear and impact resistance according to ISO 7765 1 1988 Plastics film and sheeting.

So this is a unit with the 12 petals These petals cost about a dollar each they're lightweight, injection molded plastic, aluminized.

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

It's plastic pollution.

Suddenly you've converted energy into an electron on a plastic surface that you can stick on your window.

He's given a little bottle massage, a little bottle medal.

Whenever possible, refuse single use and disposable plastics.

Upon educating myself a little further about plastics, I actually realized this was a bad thing.

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.

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

Plastic just is not going to do it.

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24. The use of the plastic baton rounds is closely monitored and any serious injuries allegedly caused by baton rounds are fully investigated.

And if you really look into it, particularly when it comes to plastic bottles, most of it is only down cycled, or incinerated, or shipped to China.

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

Now because the plastics are so plentiful and by the way, those other methods don't lead to the recovery of plastics, obviously but people do try to recover the plastics.

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 plastic bag.

The Dirt on Plastic Waste

It's mostly many types of plastics and many types of metals.

Plastics have taken the place of many conventional materials.

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 in the process, we started recreating how the plastics industry makes plastics.

Now look at that plastic chair.

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glass, plastic, terry cloth.

I like drinking from a stein.

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.

And you can see the photoetched brass detailing, and the painted acrylic facade.

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That bottle winds up getting burned.

This chair is made of plastic.

This plastic chair is very cheap.