Addicted to Plastic – Plastic Devastation
From flip-flops to footballs, water bottles to wastebaskets, plastic is everywhere in our world. The documentary confronts this daunting ubiquity head on. Sensibly alarmed and endlessly curious about plastic, from time zone to time zone in search of answers. What does it do to our oceans? Observation of maritime researchers tracking, counting and scooping a shocking amount of plastic from the most isolated regions of the sea. Where does our plastic waste go? It’s off to India, just one of North America’s offload destinations, where we see appalling overflow and some innovative solutions. What are some alternatives? We visit a manufacturer of “bioplastic,” a more organic, more degradable option. So it goes, a scrupulous, adventurous trip through the history, economics, ecology and science of this infinitely problematic substance. This is no shrill rallying cry; The film maker keeps a level head through all the depressing environmental statistics and the endless pile-up of packed landfills. Not out to inflame but to inform, and on that level Addicted to Plastic is most impressive.
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