Name: 【TED】Dianna Cohen: Tough truths about plastic pollution (Dianna Cohen: Tough truths about plastic pollution)
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and I'm also one of the co-founders of the Plastic Pollution Coalition.

which I cut up and sew back together as my primary material for my artwork

I turn them into two and three-dimensional pieces

Upon working with the plastic, after about the first eight years,

and break down into smaller little bits of plastic.

Upon educating myself a little further about plastics,

I actually realized this was a bad thing.

It's a bad thing that plastic breaks down into smaller little bits,

is that a lot of it is in the marine environment.

learned about the Pacific garbage patch and the gyre.

and I think this is a lot of people's first reaction

We've got to go out there and clean this thing up."

And my intention was to go out to the gyre,

chip it into little bits and cold mold it into bricks

that could potentially be used as building materials

and were studying the plastic problem in the marine environment

and that actually I needed to back up and look at the bigger picture.

we need to find a way to turn off the faucet.

which are entering the marine environment every day

So in looking at that, I also realized that I was really angry.

that you're trying to imagine out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean --

It's not just that gyre of plastic that I'm concerned about --

it's the gyre of plastic in the supermarket.

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

All of my beverages are packaged in plastic,

I'm also concerned about the plastic in the refrigerator,

and I'm concerned about the plastic and the toxins that leach from plastic

So I came together with a group of other people

and we created the Plastic Pollution Coalition.

We have many initiatives that we're working on,

of the marine debris that we're finding in the ocean -- is plastic,

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.

In the United States, less than seven percent of our plastics are recycled.

particularly when it comes to plastic bottles,

It is down-cycled and turned into lesser things,

while a glass bottle can be a glass bottle again

a plastic bottle can never be a plastic bottle again.

Another thing that we're looking at and asking people to think about

of the "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle," three R's,

Whenever possible, refuse single-use and disposable plastics.

I myself am now collecting these cool Pyrex containers

and using those instead of Glad and Tupperware containers

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【TED】Dianna Cohen: Tough truths about plastic pollution (Dianna Cohen: Tough truths about plastic pollution)

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