That is plastic.

That's plastic.

Can I use this eraser?

Can I borrow your eraser?

Can I borrow your eraser?

Tom borrowed my eraser.

Plastic does not break easily.

In my pencil case, I have a rubber.

Can I borrow your eraser for a moment?

Can I borrow your rubber for a moment?

Plastic is the defining feature of cheap electrical goods.

They store the plastics on the roofs.

May I use your eraser? I seem to have lost mine.

May I use your eraser? I seem to have lost mine.

May I use your eraser? I seem to have lost mine.

May I use your eraser? I seem to have lost mine.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.