That is plastic.

That's plastic.

Plastic does not break easily.

Plastic is the defining feature of cheap electrical goods.

They store the plastics on the roofs.

Plastic just is not going to do it.

Non degradable plastics in a garbage dump in Karachi.

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

We had to replace them with recyclable plastic.

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

Plastic is one of the largest pollutants in the worlds oceans today.

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

Mike Biddle We can recycle plastic

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

Plastic in landfills lasts for hundreds of years.

The waste is separated into recyclable materials (plastics, metals) and organic waste.

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

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

And any plastic can be any color, as you probably well know.

I knew it was plastic but it tasted like wood.

During Operation Cast Lead, rockets struck perilously close to Tel Aviv and Ben Gurion Airport.

And you can actually make plastic from obviously oils which come from plants, but also from starches.

So I looked up a plastic so I decided that I could mine some of this modern day rock.

I knew it was plastic but it tasted like wood.

On the 31 December, the Gaza Freedom March is taking place to mark a year passing since Operation Cast Lead, the Israeli attack on Gaza.

Once in the food chain, plastic then works it s way up the food chain and eventually ends up on the human dinner table.

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

Now most people think that's because plastics are a throw away material, have very little value.

There is no appetite in Israel for a second Operation Cast Lead but nothing less than a stable, long lasting ceasefire is acceptable.

Moreover, goods imported from Central Asia are much better than the plastic from Italy, Spain, and Turkey.

Women who make it to the front of the line strap huge bundles wrapped in plastic, weighing anywhere from 100 200 pounds, across their shoulders.

So this is a unit with the 12 petals These petals cost about a dollar each they're lightweight, injection molded plastic, aluminized.

And the last material I'm going to talk about today is plastic, and, of course, my toaster had to have a plastic case.

And because we're not breaking down the plastic into molecules and recombining them, we're using a mining approach to extract the materials.

Mostly coal, Chuluunbaatar says, but some people tend to burn other things, tires, plastics, you know.

Israel conducted the recent showdown with Hamas in a regional context that has changed dramatically since its last incursion into Gaza, Operation Cast Lead in 2008. The rise of Islamist regimes throughout the Arab world, and the subsequent shift of regional alliances, has increased the Jewish state s isolation.

Israel conducted the recent showdown with Hamas in a regional context that has changed dramatically since its last incursion into Gaza, Operation Cast Lead in 2008.

And the plastics, we get from oil, which we go to more remote locations and drill ever deeper wells to extract.

We use a very highly automated process to sort those plastics, not only by type, but by grade.

Increasing that number will depend on making drop off more convenient and expanding options for giving plastic a second life. In New York, where a statewide ban on backyard or farm burning of plastics was passed in 2009, the Cornell program worked with the state s Department of Environmental Conservation to pioneer agricultural plastics recycling and do educational outreach about recycling options through extension programs and local soil and water conservation districts.

Well, when you start working on issues like plastic, you realize that the whole thing is connected, and luckily most of us are blessed to have two arms.

They recover the metals and leave behind what's called shredder residue it's their waste a very complex mixture of materials, but predominantly plastics.

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.

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.

Israel s Operation Cast Lead in the winter of 2008 2009 re established deterrence and brought a period of relative calm but it has been clear since the start of 2012 that the parties were once again on a collision course.