Plastics.

Casein plastics.

Plastics. Plastic ware.

Chemistry gave us plastics.

Plastics are also hard to recycle.

There's a great future in plastics.

It was like Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate, right, when he said plastics, whatever that means, plastics.

Many shoes nowadays are made of plastics.

Upon educating myself a little further about plastics,

Whenever possible, refuse single use and disposable plastics.

Biodegradable plastics out of CO2 how plant like.

Plastics have taken the place of many conventional materials.

Plastics take hundreds to thousands of years to biodegrade.

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

You see, plastics have very complex structures and are difficult to biodegrade.

In the United States, less than seven percent of our plastics are recycled.

And TAP Plastics made me although I didn't photograph it a museum vitrine.

Mental note to the liberators throwaway plastics take a lot of space and don't biodegrade.

And also, I thought that there would be synthetic polymers, plastics, embedded in the rock.

And the vast majority of that, of course, is single use plastics, that stuff floats.

A teacher told me how to express the under five percent of plastics recovered in our waste stream.

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

However, plastics are useful because they're durable, flexible, and can be easily molded into so many useful shapes.

Fossil fuels are also essential for the creation of plastics and polymers, key ingredients in computers, entertainment devices and clothing.

We're losing about one million or so apex predators every year just to plastics and that's just the apex predators.

This picture doesn't exactly show the plastics that I would like it to show, because I haven't been out there myself.

I need to talk to you about what I consider one of the most egregious offenders in the disposable plastics category.

So we have to take these small plastics out, but then we wouldn't want to take the important plankton out as well.

All of the alternatives to oil depend on oil powered machinery, or require materials such as plastics that are produced from oil.

Plastics cause serious problems, such as the destruction of ecosystems, the pollution of natural resources, and the reduction of available land space.

I've seen things that are bronze, we've done things out of different types of metals. amp gt amp gt All sorts of plastics.

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

But now we have these amazing, futuristic composites plastics that change shape, paints that conduct electricity, pigments that change color, fabrics that light up.

not only with what we see, like plastics, but all these things we don't see, which are part of the water system, where it affects everything.

I need to talk to you about synthetic materials like plastics, which require huge amounts of energy to create and, because of their disposal issues, are slowly poisoning our planet.

We're using mushrooms to create an entirely new class of materials, which perform a lot like plastics during their use, but are made from crop waste and are totally compostable at the end of their lives.

We realized that when plastics get to the dump, it's difficult to sort them because they have similar densities, and when they're mixed with organic matter and construction debris, it's truly impossible to pick them out and environmentally eliminate them.

Not only is plastic directly responsible for over a billion USD in vessel damages a year, no, the awesome surprise for me was that if we sell the plastics retrieved from the 5 gyres we'd make over 500,000,000 and this is in fact more than the plan would cost to execute.

It's not a bunch of little tiny pieces, but there's no more rings left in it, and all the cuts have to be across little pieces of plastic not long plastic or cross multiple plastics at the same time, but each little bridges of plastic cut that and what I'd like you to do, follow me, let me show you.

I cannot help from feeling that we are on the edge of losing all that we've become accustomed to. Everything seems so fragile and yet is constantly taken for granted as we carry on with our busy lives blinded by the immediate. As a child I remember our waste management providers giving our family various buckets to sort paper cardboard tin and aluminium and only the special plastics with the special numbers stamped on it.