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

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

i have a cap from plastic

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

Plastic does not burn easily.

Plastic does not break easily.

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

Prepackaged meals may come with a disposable plastic spork.

Capt. Charles Moore on the seas of plastic

They store the plastics on the roofs.

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

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

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

Especially in the case of Chinese, fears of divided national loyalties and fifth columns have been strong.

Mike Biddle We can recycle plastic

And this becomes the currency of the plastics industry.

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.

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

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

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

NEWARK, NJ Plastics are everywhere.

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

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

But the process of separating the petroleum based recyclable plastics from other kinds of plastics and solid waste is difficult, costly, and labor intensive, so only a small proportion is recycled.

Withdrawing all or part of the relief in case of nonperformance would be a powerful protection against moral hazard.

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

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

These are usually made from plastic and are often shaped like an animal or other familiar objects.

This form of torture consists in covering the head with a plastic bag to cause asphyxia.

The ceramic package was more expensive, but it dissipated heat more effectively than plastic.

There are two types of section moduli, the elastic section modulus (S) and the plastic section modulus (Z).

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.

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.

Sharing powerful stories from his anti obesity project in Huntington, W. Va., TED Prize winner Jamie Oliver makes the case for an all out assault on our ignorance of food.

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

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

The shell is made of a thick plastic and with batteries installed, the unit feels very similar to the weight of a Game Boy.

I am strong, I know I am.

I know I m strong, I ve always been.

Because of short supplies of fuel, these generators are fed with a locally produced fuel that is extracted from plastic.