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1. タイトル：
   Life of a plastic bottle | Grace Jencks | TEDxYouth@ParkCity
2. 概説：

   We use plastic on a daily basis and rarely think about the effect on the earth. Grace takes us on a journey of a plastic bottle through its life cycle and encourages us to consider alternatives.

   At the time of this talk, Grace is a 9th grader at Treasure Mountain Junior High in Park City, Utah.

   This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx

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   Plastic.
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   What a great invention.
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   It has made our lives so much easier:
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   from the everyday toothbrush
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   to a straw that filters out
   the toxins in your water.
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   But at the rate we are using plastic,
   there will be no earth left to save.
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   We use plastic on a daily basis.
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    But what we don't realize,
    it takes about 450 years
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    for the average plastic bottle
    to biodegrade,
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    and most of the time,
    it doesn't even biodegrade;
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    instead, it turns into small bits
    of plastic called microplastic.
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    Now, this microplastic
    and other plastic debris
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    gathers in the middle of our oceans
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    to make islands
    that are called garbage patches.
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    These garbage patches can be
    three to four times the size of Texas.
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    Now, I would like to take
    you on a journey
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    of the average plastic bottle.
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    A bottle starts in a factory
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    where oils and other crude materials
    are mixed together
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    to make the raw material
    of our plastic bottle.
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    Now it's sent to another factory
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    where it is molded
    and formed into the bottle.
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    Then, another factory
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    where it's filled with a sugary drink
    that we are addicted to.
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    Then, it's sent to the store,
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    where someone like you or I buys it,
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    and we use it for 15 minutes.
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    That's a minuscule part
    of our life and its.
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    Then we throw it away -
    like it's no big deal.
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    It makes me sad and angry
    that sometimes us as human beings
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    can be so ignorant about how
    we treat our environment.
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    Anyways, back to our journey.
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    Somehow it ends up
    in the Mississippi River
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    and flows down river
    to hit the Gulf of Mexico.
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    From there it is swept up
    by the Northern Atlantic Current.
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    It flows out in the middle of the ocean
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    and hits the Northern
    Atlantic Garbage Patch.
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    Out there, hundreds of animals
    die each day from plastic.
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    Let's take the average
    sea turtle for example.
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    So, the sea turtle will mistake
    a plastic bag for a jellyfish
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    and will eat it as its meal.
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    And the plastic tricks the sea turtle
    into thinking it's full,
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    but in reality, it's not getting
    the nutrients it needs
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    and soon will starve to death.
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    When I heard about this,
    this made me so sad,
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    and from then on, I've always
    wanted to help our planet.
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    So, I know this sounds like a talk
    about how we are horrible
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    and we can't do anything
    to save our earth,
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    but I promise you it's not too late.
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    Even if just choosing the can
    over the plastic bottle
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    or choosing a piece of fruit
    instead of a bag of chips,
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    every little thing you do
    makes a difference.
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    We are the generation to save our oceans.
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    So, let's do something about it.
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    Thank you.
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    (Applause)