plastics" movement that seeks to raise awareness about the link between plastics in our water anand oceansd pollutin from oil andnd gas extraction ad refining related to plastics. priscilla, welcome to democracy now! talk about what you're doing and oilwhole cycle from fracking to plastics. good morning. thank you so much for having me. soso the meeting that we had in houston was the first u.s.-based break free from plastics meeting that we hosted alongside with tejas. one of the main reasons that we had this meeting was so that organizations who are working across the lifecycle of plastics to really get together and talk about how we can support our lifecycle ofis plastics. the work that earthworks specifically does, we focus on extraction and the issues that go along with fracking. when you are talking about frack well or fracacking for oil andnd gas, one o of the byproducucts a natural gas liqiquid calleled ethane.. ethane in n and of itself is not necessarily useful. it h has been consider a a waste product. but inin order to make it something -- totourn it into plastic,ou first he e t