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And the scary part about that was, sure, I learned a lot about marine life, but it taught me more about marine death and the extreme mass ecological fatality of fish, of marine life, marine mammals, very close biology to us, which are dying in the millions if not trillions that we can't count at the hands of plastic.

It never stops being plastic.

We are aware now that nanoplastic, the very, very small particles of plastic, carrying their negative charge, can go straight through the pores of your skin.

CA: So already I think you told me that there's like 600 plastic bags or so for every fish that size in the ocean, something like that.

You don't need one ton of plastic to completely wipe out marine life.

And the price of plastic, minuscule that it was, collapsed.

We've got more oil and gas in plastic and landfill than we have in the entire oil and gas resources of the United States.

AF: Because we have ingrained in us a price of plastic from fossil fuels, which sits just under what it takes to economically and profitably recycle plastic from plastic.

See, all plastic is is building blocks from oil and gas.

And you know we've got enough plastic in the world for all our needs.

And when we recycle plastic, if we can't recycle it cheaper than fossil fuel plastic, then, of course, the world just sticks to fossil fuel plastic.

CA: So that's the fundamental problem, the price of recycled plastic is usually more than the price of just buying it made fresh from more oil.

So what I've been discussing is, the seven and a half billion people in the world don't actually deserve to have their environment smashed by plastic, their oceans rendered depauperate or barren of sea life because of plastic.

So you come down that chain, and there's tens of thousands of brands which we all buy heaps of products from, but then there's only a hundred major resin producers, big petrochemical plants, that spew out all the plastic which is single use.

AF: OK, so we need them to simply raise the value of the building blocks of plastic from oil and gas, which I call "bad plastic," raise the value of that, so that when it spreads through the brands and onto us, the customers, we won't barely even notice an increase in our coffee cup or Coke or Pepsi, or anything.

But what it does, it makes every bit of plastic all over the world an article of value.

Over two or three years, the entire global plastics industry can transition from getting its building blocks from fossil fuel to getting its building blocks from plastic.

I see at least a dozen technologies in plastic to handle all types of plastic.

So once those technologies have an economic margin, which this gives them, that's where the global public will get all their plastic from, from existing plastic.

CA: So every sale of virgin plastic contributes money to a fund that is used to basically transition the industry and start to pay for things like cleanup and other pieces.

It suddenly makes recyclable plastic a giant business that can unlock millions of people around the world to find a new living collecting it.

So all you do is, you've got fossil fuel plastics at this value and recycled plastic at this value.

So recycled plastic is cheaper.

What I love about this most, Chris, is that, you know, we waste into the environment 300, 350 million tons of plastic.

It raises tens of billions of dollars per year so you can transition the industry to getting all its plastic from plastic, not from fossil fuel.

CA: This isn't your excuse to go into the plastic recycling business.

This will be the internet of plastic waste.

We're both appalled, she's jumping up and down, you'd have to know her, she's saying, "This can't be, this isn't right, we could use flags, we could use plastic bags, we could redesign the corrals for natural behavior."

The value of education is something that Froebel championed, through plastic modes of play.

We automatically throw the little nub of plastic upward.

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