Are the presents wrapped?

My bags are packed.

Tom's bags are packed.

That is plastic.

That's plastic.

Plastic does not break easily.

Non degradable plastics in a garbage dump in Karachi.

Plastic is the defining feature of cheap electrical goods.

They store the plastics on the roofs.

Plastic just is not going to do it.

Plastic in landfills lasts for hundreds of years.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Both come across as focus grouped, packaged, and cautious, whereas Trump and Sanders are seen by their followers as telling it like it is.

Making the necessary modifications is a delicate task rendered more difficult by the fact that many mortgages have been sliced up and repackaged in the form of collateralized debt obligations.

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.

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

Meanwhile, Novartis is piloting a social venture business model to give poor people in remote villages access to vital medicines that are packaged in small, affordable doses.

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

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.

Every morning, the port becomes one giant drying rack piled with clothes, shoes and personal items that sundown will find dried, packed into backpacks and moving on to their trip of hope.

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.

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

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.

They extract what they can, which is mostly the metals circuit boards and so forth and they leave behind mostly what they can't recover, which is, again, mostly the plastics.

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

A peasant village raided a hospital dumpster to reclaim discarded surgical equipment, wash it in a nearby canal, re package it in sealed plastic saying sterilized, and sell it back to the hospital at cut rate prices.