A copper jelly mold.

And my intention was to go out to the gyre, raise awareness about this issue and begin to pick up the plastic, chip it into little bits and cold mold it into bricks that could potentially be used as building materials in underdeveloped communities.

And I kind of broke the mold with Sherman.

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.

It's plastic pollution.

Now it's evening, and my dinner first grew cold and then grew mold.

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.

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.

But I also met aluminum mold makers, ammunition producers and all kinds of people.

It's a plastic bag.

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

At least 60 percent of the homes on the reservation are infested with black mold.

Controls your 3D plastic printer

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And that's a plastic polymer.

The Dirt on Plastic Waste

It's not just that gyre of plastic that I'm concerned about it's the gyre of plastic in the supermarket.

We must make the utmost effort to reduce the use of plastic packaging, and also to recycle all waste plastic.

Now look at that plastic chair.

Everything came in plastic, in cardboard.

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These boxes are made of plastic.

This chair is made of plastic.

This chair is made of plastic.

This plastic chair is very cheap.

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

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Talk about more plastic bags than plankton.

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Plastic explosives Other explosives and their precursors.

And if you want, you can lay color in the mold, and get rid of the paint shop.

I poured it into the mold, which you can see there, which I've made from a tree trunk.

And the last material I'm going to talk about today is plastic, and, of course, my toaster had to have a plastic case.

They have thousands and thousands of plastic bags.

Plastic just is not going to do it.

Capt. Charles Moore on the seas of plastic

We had to replace them with recyclable plastic.

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A plastic dish will melt on the stove.

So a lot of people remember the plastic bottle anyway, but we really talked about marine debris and plastic in the course of that one.