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.

That was in your mailbox.

They took inspiration from, of all things, Cap'n Crunch.

He had a big box in his arms.

Layla put the money in a shoe box.

Plastic does not burn easily.

Plastic does not break easily.

Tom has a four liter box of cheap wine in his fridge.

Witnesses saw a man carrying a gasoline can near the car.

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

Prepackaged meals may come with a disposable plastic spork.

If all of your electricity in your lifetime came from nuclear, the waste from that lifetime of electricity would go in a Coke can a pretty heavy Coke can, about two pounds.

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.

Layla had a strawberry milkshake.

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.

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.

Then, this is a house based on a Budweiser can.

Peanut butter and jelly, please.

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.

Then, these corbeles going down underneath the eaves are that little design that comes off the can.

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.

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

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.

It doesn't look like a can of beer, but the design take offs are absolutely unmistakable.

When I'm modeling a plant in a box, literally, I know where to draw the boundary.

This paint can right here saved the Dutch Boy paint company, making them a fortune. It costs 35 percent more than regular paint because Dutch Boy made a can that people talk about, because it's remarkable.

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.