[music] Thank you for joining me here today. Not a great venue, the smoker's lounge. Try and ignore the smoke catching in your throat and don't think about your delicate pink lung tissue soaking it all in.And you're right, our kids shouldn't be in here with us. But we're here to ask one simple question. What is a lethal dose of plastics poisoning.See, today we know a great deal about passive smoking. That's why we don't light up with our kids in the car anymore the way we did my the way our parents did when ...

It was my privilege uh 15 years ago to address this conference and I was asked to talk about an angle of the Pacific garbage patch that we were uniquely qualified to talk about because we had conducted a study of 10 people. We tested them for over 400 toxic chemicals. We found dozens and dozens of plastic related chemicals.An average of 200 chemicals in each one of these individuals. Now, we don't really know much about them. About all we know is that all of them look something like this when the exposure h ...