I've got one word for you 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.

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

And out the end of that part of the process come little flakes of plastic one type, one grade.

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

i have a cap from plastic

They're plastic they last and last.

Article 20. Conditions for use of single source procurement

Article 22. Conditions for use of single source procurement

So there's always a big question that comes up, because plastic in the ocean has got a really bad reputation right now, and so we've been thinking cradle to cradle.

And for those of you who are not parents, sippy cups are those little plastic things that your child graduates to after using bottles.

And he said, Well, instead of using one stroke and two strokes,

Proving the positive power of the TED community, many of us got off that boat, and we simply refuse to use plastic, and some made generous commitments to help spread this message.

And Kate starts with purple.

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

Talk about more plastic bags than plankton.

Plastic? Sewing? Meat?

What is multimedia tasking?

Plastic does not burn easily.

Plastic does not break easily.

Our plastic has become their diet.

And that's a plastic polymer.

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

Prepackaged meals may come with a disposable plastic spork.

It's a piece of plastic with a Radio Shack antenna attached to it.

Plastics take hundreds to thousands of years to biodegrade.

By the use of this ointment one shilling the box

Capt. Charles Moore on the seas of plastic

They store the plastics on the roofs.

Plastic is so permanent, so indestructible.

They are integral to our modern day lifestyle.

Plastic just is not going to do it.

I just basically gnawed all this stuff out of plastic.

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

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

They use large quantities chloroprene and benzene.

Well perhaps some rectangular pieces of plastic with strange symbols on them.

It's just a hollow piece of plastic with an antenna that swivels around.

So some of these molecules in biological systems have more than one use.

In 1988, the United States Society of Plastics Industry (SPI) developed a coding system in which each kind of resin is labeled with a number, 1 7, to facilitate sorting.

Mike Biddle We can recycle plastic

And this becomes the currency of the plastics industry.

Plastics are also hard to recycle.

The world of plastics is present everywhere.

Now look at that plastic chair.