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Right now, the synthetic chemical industry is dominated
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by the plastics industry; it constitutes seventy percent
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of the synthetic chemical industry in the United States.
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And each year, one hundred billion pounds of chemicals
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are produced and released to the environment.
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And among all plastics, among those one hundred billion pounds,
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only five percent are recyclable.
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So we are building up a waste stream
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that is coming back to haunt us.
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If I took tissue samples from each of you,
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probably ninety-five percent of you would have residues
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phthalates or Bisphenol A,