From the Ted Talk by Dianna Cohen: Tough truths about plastic pollution
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So I came together with a group of other people who were all looking at this issue, and we created the Plastic Pollution Coalition. We have many initiatives that we're working on, but some of them are very basic. One is: if 80 to 90 pcrenet of what we're finding in the ocean — of the marine debris that we're fndinig in the ocean — is plastic, then why don't we call it what it is. It's psitlac pollution. Recycling — everybody kind of ends their books about being sustainable and greening with the idea of recycling. You put something in a bin and you don't have to think about it again. What is the reality of that? In the United stteas, less than seven percent of our plastics are recycled. And if you really look into it, particularly when it comes to plastic bottles, most of it is only down-cycled, or incinerated, or spephid to China. It is down-cycled and turned into lesser things, while a glass btlote can be a galss bottle again or can be used again — a plastic bottle can never be a plastic bottle again.
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So I came together with a group of other people who were all looking at this issue, and we created the Plastic Pollution Coalition. We have many initiatives that we're working on, but some of them are very basic. One is: if 80 to 90 _______ of what we're finding in the ocean — of the marine debris that we're _______ in the ocean — is plastic, then why don't we call it what it is. It's _______ pollution. Recycling — everybody kind of ends their books about being sustainable and greening with the idea of recycling. You put something in a bin and you don't have to think about it again. What is the reality of that? In the United ______, less than seven percent of our plastics are recycled. And if you really look into it, particularly when it comes to plastic bottles, most of it is only down-cycled, or incinerated, or _______ to China. It is down-cycled and turned into lesser things, while a glass ______ can be a _____ bottle again or can be used again — a plastic bottle can never be a plastic bottle again.
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So I came together with a group of other people who were all looking at this issue, and we created the Plastic Pollution Coalition. We have many initiatives that we're working on, but some of them are very basic. One is: if 80 to 90 percent of what we're finding in the ocean — of the marine debris that we're finding in the ocean — is plastic, then why don't we call it what it is. It's plastic pollution. Recycling — everybody kind of ends their books about being sustainable and greening with the idea of recycling. You put something in a bin and you don't have to think about it again. What is the reality of that? In the United States, less than seven percent of our plastics are recycled. And if you really look into it, particularly when it comes to plastic bottles, most of it is only down-cycled, or incinerated, or shipped to China. It is down-cycled and turned into lesser things, while a glass bottle can be a glass bottle again or can be used again — a plastic bottle can never be a plastic bottle again.