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.

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

They used to use a plastic packaging buffer, but we were able to give them the exact same physical performance with our grown material.

Whenever possible, refuse single use and disposable plastics.

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.

(b) plastics drums and jerricans that

The upper is Nylon 6 that can go back to caprolactam, the bottom, a polyolephine infinitely recyclable thermoplastic.

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

Now most people think that's because plastics are a throw away material, have very little value.

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

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

And this is really bad news because plastic is not an inert substance.

We take out the things that aren't plastics, such as the metals they missed, carpeting, foam, rubber, wood, glass, paper, you name it.

Imagine if a group of sculptors could be inside of a lattice of atoms and sculpt with their material.

So whenever possible, to choose alternatives to single use plastics.

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

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.

Subjects of the investigations were none ablative materials (fibre reinforced ceramics), ablative materials, flexible (FEI) and multilayer insolations (MLI) as well as carbon fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP) plates and sandwich panels.

It's plastic pollution.

It begins to melt below the boiling point of water and does not drive off the oily contaminants for which it is a sponge.

I bought some Super Sculpeys, some armature wire, some various materials.

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

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.

Even though we put a passive bar there.

And by using mycelium as a glue, you can mold things just like you do in the plastic industry, and you can create materials with many different properties, materials that are insulating, fire resistant, moisture resistant, vapor resistant materials that can absorb impacts, that can absorb acoustical impacts.

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

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.

We need to cut the spigot of single use and disposable plastics, which are entering the marine environment every day on a global scale.

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.

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

I went into the metal because it was a way of building a building that was a sculpture.

Van Jones The economic injustice of plastic

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

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.

This is a material you all know is Styrofoam, but I like to think of it as toxic white stuff.

Now look at that plastic chair.