I like drinking from a stein.

(b) plastics drums and jerricans that

Plastic champagne glasses, just in 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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And they also decided that I had to to give me a very ugly Plexiglas trophy for it.

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

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

It's plastic pollution.

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

And for those of you who are not parents, sippy cups are those little plastic things that your child graduates to after using bottles.

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.

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

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

Plastics have taken the place of many conventional materials.

Would you like a drink?

Chocolate?

Give us a couple of drinks.

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.

So you have a clock, you have protein, and now a silk cup like this can be thrown away without guilt unlike the polystyrene cups that unfortunately fill our landfills everyday.

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.

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.

And another point why I'm here is that the day I went to pick up the Plexiglas trophy, I rented a tuxedo for the first time in my life, picked the thing didn't have any friends.

Controls your 3D plastic printer

That bottle winds up getting burned.

This chair is made of plastic.

This plastic chair is very cheap.

You can also find, at your convenience, heights, ropes, ovens, even plastic bags.

20 billion dollars of this material is produced every year, in everything from building materials to surfboards to coffee cups to table tops.