Research shows that these items of plastic never leave our planet.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

The first is to raise public awareness of the huge amounts of plastic that are polluting the planet.

CNN: Environmentalist: It's becoming a plastic world

We took the plastic bottle that in so many ways symbolizes all that's wrong with Dumb Planet 1.0 ways of thinking and turned it into a platform of hope by showing that it can be an effective and useful resource.

CNN: Opinion: Creating a sea of change

The most apparent and shocking of which is the plastic waste that can now be found scattered across the surfaces and the depths of our planet's oceans.

CNN: Opinion: Creating a sea of change