The document discusses the speaker's realization that cleaning up plastic pollution is only a small part of the problem, as plastic production continues to generate massive amounts of waste daily. The speaker notes wanting to "turn off the faucet" by reducing plastic use, as everything from food to beverages is packaged in plastic. The speaker is concerned not just with the Great Pacific Garbage Patch but also the amount of plastic found in supermarkets and the toxins that can leach from plastics into bodies.

1. Ramirez Deisy
Rodriguez Dante

3. which

4. I turn them into 2 or 3 D pieces
and sculptures

5. Working with the
plastic

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

7. Then in the last few
years
I learned about

9. 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.

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

12. 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.

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

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

19. It's plastic pollutionz

21. two million of them in the United States every five
minutes