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.

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.

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

The first sculptural model I made for that thing in Tokyo.

Plastics are a whole other story well less than 10 percent are recovered.

Most are engaged in the production of fabric and plastics for export.

That is like an Anish Kapoor flowing through a Richard Serra.

Paper and plastic products, packing materials, camp stores, hoses, fittings kitchen and catering supplies.

So the traditional ways of separating materials just simply don't work for plastics.

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

We said, there's got to be a more sustainable way to make plastics.

A Louis XV carved and gilded lit de repos.

I should point out at this time I'm not a sculptor I'm a hard edged model maker.

I would like to model it in clay.

She poses nearby for a sculptor

(f) Art, in particular drawingss, designs, paintings, carvings, sculptures, pottery, mosaics, woodwork, metalwork, jewellery, musical instruments, basket weaving, handicrafts, needlework, textiles, carpets, costumes, architectural forms and

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.

He celebrates these local and mundane objects globally, and on a grander and grander scale, by incorporating them into ever more colossal sculptures and installations.

And instead of plopping down several hundred million dollars to build a chemical plant that will only make one type of plastic for its entire life, our plants can make any type of plastic we feed them.

For example, for all the TEDTalks around food, someone summed this up into Food shaping body, brains and environment, which I think is pretty good.

It's a material hardener and synthetic estrogen that's found in the lining of canned foods and some plastics.

How can you possibly make a model out of that?

We put suffocation warnings on all the on every piece of plastic film manufactured in the United States or for sale with an item in the United States.

The object on the right is made from a confection of different substances, from silicon and metal and plastic and so on.

We tend to think of oil spills and mercury and we hear a lot about plastic these days.

Perhaps because it was being produced rationally, as if it were plastic, food gained magical or poisonous powers, or both.

Made in China Remade

The way we sent drawings to Japan we used the magic computer in Michigan that does carved models, and we used to make foam models, which that thing scanned.

This estimate covers the cost of refilling fire extinguishers, photographic supplies, packing and packaging supplies, oxygen and acetylene refills, freon gas, butane gas for cooking, assorted gas cylinders, kitchen items (cookery, cutlery), paper products, mosquito netting, mattresses, including covers, pillows, blankets and bed sheets, garbage bags, tablecloths (plastic and paper), plastic jerrycans, curtains, field toilets, operational maps and other miscellaneous supplies.

Reforming China s Commanding Heights

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Soybeans, yeah.

He also creates phantasmagoric sculptures made of bones from cast resin.

Mr Tyson owns the sugar cane, you own the formula for the plastics and I'm offered as a sacrifice on the altar of industrial progress!

What he'd effectively done is he'd re branded the potato.

Plastic is the defining feature of cheap electrical goods.

And then, just some examples. This stuff really is sculpture.

Upon working with the plastic, after about the first eight years, some of my work started to fissure and break down into smaller little bits of plastic.

Controls your 3D plastic printer

A 1 940 smelt from the Weigenhaler foundry at Essen.

In a world that is reliant on plastics, more sustainable production, consumption, and disposal of plastic products is crucial. Civil society, industry, and government must work together to increase the share of recycled plastics, thereby ensuring that plastics costs do not outweigh their benefits.

And when I held my bronze one up against my Sculpey one, it was shorter by three quarters of an inch.

Don't you know you can't fake sculpture anymore?

Packaging materials including tape, cardboard boxes, plastic wrapping, foam packaging chemicals, etc.

When we produced that model we turn it into a solid plastic model, as you can see, using a rapid prototyping technique, another engineering technique.

What you could do is really influence your product now and shape manipulate your product.