And once I learnt, it was difficult to go back.

And so, poor people who are making these products in petrochemical centers like Cancer Alley, poor people who are consuming these products disproportionately, and then poor people who, even at the tail end of the recycling, are having their lives shortened.

This picture you see here is the Great Pacific Gyre.

Come on, get inside.

Plastic?

So I looked at other ways of making plastic.

Plastics.

Antiplastic.

Antiplastic?

Antiplastic!

It's plastic.

It's ephemeral just like us.

People stink!

Plastics. Plastic ware.

I see plastic.

No, plastic.

The test number 1. The flashing lights.

I'll quench your fire!

This was being sold to high school administrators for 900 apiece.

We have a video to show you.

Yep, plastic.

And this is my chair?

What kind of plastic, man?

So let's have a look at your home. So your sofa, your plastic chair, your kid's toys give their own invisible reality.

Well, tip in your antiplastic and let's go.

Like plastic explosives?

Plastic explosive of peanut butter.

The firemen quickly extinguished the blaze.

I'm erasing you, and I'm happy!

The 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.

Only we humans make waste that nature can't digest.

Yeah, and some plastic polymers.

Well... Diolacton is a milkbased plastic.

That's it, inside the vat, a living plastic creature.

I was at first elated.

I'll fuck you, and then I'll eat you.

Rice gruel is easy to digest.

And you see that over here.

If my calculations are correct, they're creating a singularity ...that will consume the planet.

The oars have gone missing!

Now, get out of here!

Burn it down in the sewers when you're done.

That's a lot of secrets on a little piece of plastic.

Old traditions are crumbling away.

Things even cleared up for Carter.