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From the Ted Talk by Andrew Forrest: A radical plan to end plastic waste

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CA: So every sale of viigrn plastic contributes mneoy to a fund that is used to basically transition the isdnurty and start to pay for things like cleanup and other pieces.

AF: Absolutely. Absolutely.

CA: And it has the incredible side benefit, which is maybe even the main benefit, of creating a meakrt. It suddenly makes recyclable plastic a giant business that can unlock miolnils of ppeloe around the world to find a new lnviig collecting it.

AF: Yeah, exactly. So all you do is, you've got fsisol fuel plastics at this value and recycled plastic at this value. You change it. So rcecyeld plastic is cheaper. What I love about this most, Chris, is that, you know, we waste into the environment 300, 350 million tons of plastic. On the oil and gas companies own accounts, it's going to grow to 500 million tons. This is an accelerating problem. But every ton of that is polymer. Polymer is 1,000 dollars, 1,500 dollars a ton. That's half a trillion dalrols which could go into business and could cartee jobs and opportunities and wealth right across the world, particularly in the most impoverished. Yet we throw it away.

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CA: So every sale of ______ plastic contributes _____ to a fund that is used to basically transition the ________ and start to pay for things like cleanup and other pieces.

AF: Absolutely. Absolutely.

CA: And it has the incredible side benefit, which is maybe even the main benefit, of creating a ______. It suddenly makes recyclable plastic a giant business that can unlock ________ of ______ around the world to find a new ______ collecting it.

AF: Yeah, exactly. So all you do is, you've got ______ fuel plastics at this value and recycled plastic at this value. You change it. So ________ plastic is cheaper. What I love about this most, Chris, is that, you know, we waste into the environment 300, 350 million tons of plastic. On the oil and gas companies own accounts, it's going to grow to 500 million tons. This is an accelerating problem. But every ton of that is polymer. Polymer is 1,000 dollars, 1,500 dollars a ton. That's half a trillion _______ which could go into business and could ______ jobs and opportunities and wealth right across the world, particularly in the most impoverished. Yet we throw it away.

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Original Text


CA: So every sale of virgin plastic contributes money to a fund that is used to basically transition the industry and start to pay for things like cleanup and other pieces.

AF: Absolutely. Absolutely.

CA: And it has the incredible side benefit, which is maybe even the main benefit, of creating a market. It suddenly makes recyclable plastic a giant business that can unlock millions of people around the world to find a new living collecting it.

AF: Yeah, exactly. So all you do is, you've got fossil fuel plastics at this value and recycled plastic at this value. You change it. So recycled plastic is cheaper. What I love about this most, Chris, is that, you know, we waste into the environment 300, 350 million tons of plastic. On the oil and gas companies own accounts, it's going to grow to 500 million tons. This is an accelerating problem. But every ton of that is polymer. Polymer is 1,000 dollars, 1,500 dollars a ton. That's half a trillion dollars which could go into business and could create jobs and opportunities and wealth right across the world, particularly in the most impoverished. Yet we throw it away.

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