The recycling of plastic in many developing countries means the incineration of the plastic, the burning of the plastic, which releases incredible toxic chemicals and, once again, kills people.

There's been a major toxic spill on the Shanghai Central District. Citizens today

We are going to lose our ability to thrive.

Other people who are poor don't have those choices.

And all of those black dots are all of the toxic release inventories that are monitored by the EPA.

There's no vacuums. There's no big furnaces.

Clear the contaminant.

Next, more harmful chemicals are sprayed on fruits and vegetables,

This is not illegal stuff, this is basically business as usual, which causes climate changing emissions, which have an economic cost.

We want to clean this river and put the fish back that used to be there.

There are hazardous chemical compounds everywhere.

It leaches out chemicals into the flesh of the poor critter that ate it, and then we come along and eat that poor critter, and we get some of the toxins accumulating in our bodies as well.

These same infections create harmful algal blooms.

This plastic garbage bag is free of hazardous chemicals.

And to do that, I'd like to talk first about environmental toxins in our bodies.

and chemical agents.

I created, with David Edward, a scientist of Harvard University, an object able to absorb the toxic elements using those kind of plants.

Since August 2012, harmful phosphors have been found in the instant noodle package cups from every famous brand sold in China's supermarkets.

Salt is a useful substance.

Carbon monoxide is a poisonous substance formed by the incomplete combustion of carbon compounds.

And so with all these crises, we have let's see ethnic and minority tensions we have chemical and nuclear spills, nuclear proliferation.

The colon absorbs water, manufactures vitamins produces mucous, and forms and expels feces

Do organic potatoes actually have fewer toxic chemicals used to produce them than conventional potatoes?

How about the use of toxic chemicals will be cut in half every 18 months?

But fire also leaves the soil bare, releasing carbon, and worse than that, burning one hectare of grassland gives off more, and more damaging, pollutants than 6,000 cars.

Feces?

They did stuff!

Do you know we all have about 50 chemicals in our bodies we didn't have about 50 years ago?

I have a urinary problem.

There's a chance that tap water may contain harmful substances like chlorine and lead.

That's creating the largest toxic impoundments in the history of the planet.

Is it something that can hurt us? It's a bird.

Shell Canada has plans to extract methane gas from coal seams that underly a million acres, fracking the coal with hundreds of millions of gallons of toxic chemicals, establishing perhaps as many as 6,000 wellheads, and eventually a network of roads and pipelines and flaring wellheads, all to generate methane gas that most likely will go east to fuel the expansion of the tar sands.

This substance is not poisonous in itself.

We're all unwitting victims of a collective blind spot.

Exhaust gases of a car are noxious.

These substances are not poisonous in themselves.

Probenecid, spironolactone, furosemide and any other uricosurics and diuretics.

If we build all these nuclear power plants, all that waste is going to be on hundreds, if not thousands, of trucks and trains, moving through this country every day.

Here is an example of where this occurs.

So, let's have a green Moore's law.

Antibiotics are commonly enzymatic inhibitors.

In Fort Chippewa, the 800 people there, are finding toxins in the food chain, this has been scientifically proven.

Everyone knows that this chemical is harmful to man.

We worked on an organic compound... to reduce carbon emissions, slow down global warming.