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So here's a quieter experiment where we filmed some earphones plugged into a laptop computer, and in this case, our goal was to recover the music that was playing on that laptop from just silent video of these two little plastic earphones, and we were able to do this so well that I could even Shazam our results.

And they gave me, like, a little plastic Ziploc bag of a small amount of powder.

In flight, my observation reveals thousands of plastic white bundles owned by a conservation industry that claims it's eco-friendly and recycles millions of tires to preserve people's lives and to improve people's lives.

So we said, "Well, these will be on round tables and the order around the table had to be the same, so that at my site, I would be, if you will, real and then at each other's site you'd have these plastic heads.

And the plastic heads, sometimes you want to project them.

So if I, all of a sudden, turn to the person to my left and start talking to that person, then at the person to my right's site, he'll see these two plastic heads talking to each other.

Any plastic tables?

And so it's sad to say, but today more than 80 percent of the oceans have plastic in them.

And in past decades, we've been taking those big ships out and those big nets, and we collect those plastic bits that we look at under a microscope, and we sort them, and then we put this data onto a map.

And so, back to plastic.

We collect this plastic and we grind it to the size we find it in the ocean, which is very small because it breaks down.

And so we have agreed that instead of collecting plastic bits, we are going to collect only the data.

So we see the plastic pieces floating slowly through the sensor, and the computer on board will process this image, and measure the size of each particle, so we have a rough estimate of how much plastic there is in the water.

So plastic, oil and radioactivity are horrible, horrible legacies, but the very worst legacy that we can leave our children is lies.

If anything is sacred, that is, and into that sacred relationship comes our plastic trash.

All of these birds have plastic in them now.

Over the past century, and in particular in the last several decades, human endeavors, from beach development to plastic refuse to poaching, long lines, nets, and even noxious chemicals, including oil, have upped the ante for sea turtles, causing their survival rate to drop to around one percent or less, from each nesting cycle.

You might have an optical mouse that makes these measurements with lights and sensors, but older ones did this with a hard rubber ball and some plastic wheels.

In the first step in this process we pressurize the water and pass it through a reverse osmosis membrane: a thin, permeable plastic membrane that allows water molecules to pass through but traps and retains the salts, the viruses and the organic chemicals that might be present in the wastewater.

IW: In Bali, we generate 680 cubic meters of plastic garbage a day.

And when it comes to plastic bags, less than five percent gets recycled.

It changed ours, too, when we learned about it, when we learned that almost all plastic bags in Bali end up in our drains and then in our rivers and then in our ocean.

And we've been working for almost three years now to try to say no to plastic bags on our home island.

And one thing that stood out to us the most was the plastic garbage.

So we looked into what was a realistic target for us kids: plastic bags.

IW: We started researching, and let's just say, the more we learned, there was nothing good about plastic bags.

MW: We were really inspired by the efforts to say no to plastic bags in many other places, from Hawaii to Rwanda and to severals cities like Oakland and Dublin.

The village is already two-thirds along the way of becoming plastic bag free.

And we gave him the "Bali of plastic bags" speech, and being a very nice man, he said, [imitating the man's voice] "I cannot believe what I'm about say, but I'm going to give authorization to collect signatures behind customs and immigrations."

So we met with a nutritionist, and we came up with a compromise of not eating from sunrise to sunset every day until the governor of Bali would agree to meet with us to talk about how to stop plastic bags on Bali.

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