 it's here and now take a moment with me and look around you how much plastic do you see just on my desk here i've got uh... pen that's made of plastic a tube of chapstick there's a library card this laptop here is made of plastic the wires that lead into it are coated with plastic the world produces about fifty three thousand metric tons of it every hour and much of it is used once and then just tossed away where it contaminates our soil our waters