It's a piece of plastic with a Radio Shack antenna attached to it.

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 he went out and bought a plastic frame to put the photograph in.

Part 1 Staircase methods and ISO 6383 2 1983 Plastics.

(b) plastics drums and jerricans that

Now, when the debris washes up on the beaches of Hawaii it looks like this.

And out the end of that part of the process come little flakes of plastic one type, one grade.

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.

Plastik

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

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

After 20 years, we see emerging the debris accumulation zone of the North Pacific Gyre.

In 2000, global losses for fraud committed using plastic cards was estimated to be in excess of 2 billion.

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

It's plastic pollution.

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

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.

The record holder, only two and a half inches long, had 84 pieces in its tiny stomach.

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.

Plastic just is not going to do it.

(b) plastics drums that

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

And my intention was to go out to the gyre, raise awareness about this issue and begin to pick up the plastic, chip it into little bits and cold mold it into bricks that could potentially be used as building materials in underdeveloped communities.

Well no, not pieces of plastic, but stone seals, copper tablets, pottery and, surprisingly, one large sign board, which was found buried near the gate of a city.

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

Plastics have taken the place of many conventional materials.

We did hundreds of necropsies, and over a third had polluted plastic fragments in their stomachs.

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.

51H flexible plastics large packagings

50H rigid plastics large packagings

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Soybeans, yeah.

glass, plastic, terry cloth.

I like drinking from a stein.

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

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.