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We had to replace them with recyclable plastic.
But the Sargasso Sea, the same way it aggregates sargassum weed, actually is pulling in the plastic from throughout the region.
But there has just been a study that was released in February that showed there are 200,000 pieces of plastic per square-kilometer now floating in the surface of the Sargasso Sea, and that is affecting the habitat for the many species in their juvenile stages who come to the Sargasso Sea for its protection and its food.
Little kids, especially, are attracted by colorful packaging and plastic toys.
And that's a plastic polymer.
It was recently dragged for plankton by scientists, and they found six times as much plastic as plankton.
Charles Limb: This is a plastic MIDI piano keyboard that we use for the jazz experiments.
And these were steel, mica, plastic, copper and nickel.
And the last material I'm going to talk about today is plastic, and, of course, my toaster had to have a plastic case.
And so plastic comes from oil, so I phoned up BP and spent a good half an hour trying to convince the PR office at BP that it would be fantastic for them if they flew me to an oil rig and let me have a jug of oil.
So I looked at other ways of making plastic.
And you can actually make plastic from obviously oils which come from plants, but also from starches.
So this is attempting to make potato starch plastic.
A kindergarten teacher I know, her son donated all of his toys to her, and when he did, she had to go through and pull out all the little plastic guns.
You can't have plastic knives and swords and axes and all that kind of thing in a kindergarten classroom.
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.
Not only would it have been burned in engines and added to global warming, but there's a place called "Cancer Alley," and the reason it's called "Cancer Alley" is because the petrochemical industry takes that oil and turns it into plastic and in the process, kills people.
We actually get a chance to choose not to use products that have dangerous, poisonous plastic in them.
Those are the people who wind up ingesting a disproportionate amount of this poisonous plastic in using it.
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.
And yet, as a movement that has to broaden its constituency, that has to grow, that has to reach out beyond our natural comfort zone, one of the challenges to the success of this movement, of getting rid of things like plastic and helping the economy shift, is people look at our movement with some suspicion.
Well, when you start working on issues like plastic, you realize the whole thing is connected.
And in their area they had a lot of shops and restaurants that were producing lots of food, cardboard and plastic waste.
He actually was the first person to clone a dog, which is a very difficult thing to do, because dog genomes are very plastic.
And the plastic bottle we're throwing away every day still stays there.
Well perhaps some rectangular pieces of plastic with strange symbols on them.
Well no, not pieces of plastic, but stone seals, copper tablets, pottery and, surprisingly, one large sign board, which was found buried near the gate of a city.
So I communicate through everything from radio transceivers to funnels and plastic tubing.
And any plastic can be any color, as you probably well know.
And sometimes they'll resort to what's known as the "burn and sniff" technique where they'll burn the plastic and smell the fumes to try to determine the type of plastic.
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