Learning more about plastics and how science is working on ways to create biodegradable plastics can help improve the situation where plastic now has contaminated our land and water systems. However, by keeping up the following cycle of reduce, refuse, reuse, recycle will help decrease and divert the amount of plastic going into our ecosystems. I myself try to reduce things we buy that comes in unnecessary plastics. One thing that the Dnews videos pointed out was that plastic is in almost every piece of technology we currently use. However, it's not that we can forgo plastics, but that we can reduce our daily consumption of it, especially of the single use or disposable kind. Again, follow the idea that by consuming less and consuming more consciously you will help to eliminate harmful chemicals and trash getting into our environment.