Tough truths about plastic pollution

Ramirez DeisyRodriguez Dante

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I turn them into 2 or 3 D pieces and sculptures

Working with the plastic

And what we're finding is that a lot of it is in the M.E

Then in the last few yearsI learned about

I realized that cleaning it up would be a very small drop in the bucket relative to how much is being generated every day around the world, and that actually I needed to back up and look at the bigger picture.

And the bigger picture is: we need to find a way to turn off the faucet.

I wasn't just concerned about plastic that you're

trying to imagine out in the middle of the Pacific

Ocean -- of which I have learned there are now

11 gyres, potentially, of plastic in five major

oceans in the world.

I'd go to the supermarket and all of my food is packaged in plastic.

It's not just that gyre of plastic that I'm concerned about -- it's the gyre of plastic in the supermarket.

All of my beverages are packaged in plastic, even at the health food market.

the toxins that leach from plastic into us and into our bodies

It's plastic pollutionz

It is plastic pollution

two million of them in the United States every five minutes

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