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.

Whenever possible, refuse single use and disposable plastics.

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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.

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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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Now look at that plastic chair.

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50H rigid plastics large packagings

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glass, plastic, terry cloth.

I like drinking from a stein.

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

Plastics have taken the place of many conventional materials.

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.

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.