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.

i have a cap from plastic

Plastic does not burn easily.

Plastic does not break easily.

Our plastic has become their diet.

And that's a plastic polymer.

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're plastic they last and last.

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.

People use plastic everywhere.

Anybody here want to double their bet?

Have Lieutenant Swanson double the patrols for the next few nights.

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

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.

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

Talk about more plastic bags than plankton.

Plastic? Sewing? Meat?

So I looked at other ways of making plastic.

JY

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.

Or continuously compounding growth or continuously compounding decay, though you'll very seldom hear that term.

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

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

Prepackaged meals may come with a disposable plastic spork.

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

Yet this presence is but a premonition of a future world.

I've got one word for you plastic.

Upon educating myself a little further about plastics,

And, here are two groups of people with very different ideas of solutions to the plastics' problem.

Plastics take hundreds to thousands of years to biodegrade.

Slight hitch plastics merger.

He would grind them into the clay they mold, double their labors.

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