The solution, Moore says, is to stop the plastic at its source stop it on land before it falls in the ocean.

Plastic is the defining feature of cheap electrical goods.

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

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.

The rest want modern things, everything plastic, televisions...

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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.

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.

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.

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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.

51H flexible plastics large packagings

50H rigid plastics large packagings

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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.

It is, furthermore, a matter of current debate as to whether plastic coated cable is generally considered a hazardous waste under the Basel Convention.

And more than that, it's a confection of different ideas, the idea of plastic, the idea of a laser, the idea of transistors.

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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.

So I communicate through everything from radio transceivers to funnels and plastic tubing.