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At the end of this process, we have a mixed plastic composite many different types of plastics and many different grades of plastics.

And in the process, we started recreating how the plastics industry makes plastics.

Loaded Russian helicopter (From flickr user nkdx)

he runs at him with a stiff neck, with the thick shields of his bucklers

He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers

And this becomes the currency of the plastics industry.

It is available in a packaged dry form such as Alpen, or it can be made fresh.

i have a cap from plastic

Plastic does not burn easily.

Plastic does not break easily.

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.

Capt. Charles Moore on the seas of plastic

They store the plastics on the roofs.

It's mostly many types of plastics and many types of metals.

And these are just a few examples of companies that are buying our plastic, replacing virgin plastic, to make their new products.

Mike Biddle We can recycle plastic

Now because the plastics are so plentiful and by the way, those other methods don't lead to the recovery of plastics, obviously but people do try to recover the plastics.

Eben Bayer Are mushrooms the new plastic?

This discovery formed the foundation of the modern plastics industry.

Monitoring of compliance with no dumping regulations for plastics

But actually, plastics are several times more valuable than steel.

NEWARK, NJ Plastics are everywhere.

We grind the plastic down to about the size of your small fingernail.

Prepackaged meals may come with a disposable plastic spork.

In 1989, OMV acquired a 25 stake in plastics group, Borealis.

In addition, in 2003, bombs filled with chemically inactivated Bacillus anthracis in liquid form were also excavated and sampled.

In addition, no evidence of biological munitions filled with dry agents was found.

Button copy signs with plastic pips rather than glass appeared in the 1970s.

The traditional way to make plastics is with oil or petrochemicals.

They manufacture plastics. They use large quantities chloroprene and benzene.

But bioplastics are not a silver bullet for managing plastics waste.

Similarly, the mixer housing can be made of metal or plastic.

Or they burn the plastics to get to the metals in burn houses like you see here.

We said, there's got to be a more sustainable way to make plastics.

It's a bad thing that plastic breaks down into smaller little bits, because it's always still plastic.

And instead of plopping down several hundred million dollars to build a chemical plant that will only make one type of plastic for its entire life, our plants can make any type of plastic we feed them.

If I walk into a store in the United States, it's very, very easy for me to buy water that's bottled in Fiji, shipped at great expense to the United States.

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

Capt. Charles Moore of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation first discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch an endless floating waste of plastic trash. Now he's drawing attention to the growing, choking problem of plastic debris in our seas.

However, the bomb was not encased in metal and the terrorist was the only person killed.

will never gather up all the plastic and put the ocean back together again.

Plastics are a whole other story well less than 10 percent are recovered.

And it goes in the first part of our process here, which is more like traditional recycling.

And they said this one friend of mine said, I've got one word for you plastic.