Life In Plastic - 26 minute documentary - trailer

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Plastic is the backbone of our society but oil reserves are decreasing and evidence points to its noxious effects on our health and the environment. Could intelligent recycling be the answer?
Hundreds of miles in the open Pacific, a jellyfish is drifting among plastic bags, bits of waste trapped in its tentacles. We found the water column there contains six times more plastic than animal life, warns this marine biologist. Chemicals released from plastic pass along the food chain. The creatures at the end of it, man himself, get the entire load. Currents gather waste from the coast forming a carpet of rubbish the size of Central Europe. The harmful effects of those chemicals on the human body range from infertility to cancer. The solution? Cradle to cradle recycling. Environmental chemist Michael Braungart aims at creating products that could be recycled an infinite number of times. 'Even at the planning stage of a product, we think of how and where its useful life will end. This means that each constituent must initially be non-toxic and all constituents must be easily separable.' He boldly claims, 'All things can be reinvented.'

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[HammandClov]

i want to smack the idiot that came up with the DRM bullshit.

[Luckystar311]

Independent film makers have to fund their work some how. Journeyman gives out a lot of good information, but most people dont care enough to pay attention to anything other that just their entertainment. If people would become more informed on all the bs thats going on around the world things might change for the better, but like I said most people just dont care.

[TwilightFadez]

@iBuckFush

You're a moron. He just said plastic was a by-product from crude oil, so that means it comes from something that already powers your damn car.

[iBuckFush]

when will plastic power our damn cars?

[kitcatnos2000]

gosh what would the world be with out plastic?

[lobotomizedman]

don't they already manufacture plastic from corn? at least some types of it? do we really need oil as much as we do today?

i don't think so.

[tangaroa67]

We should start by banning the use of plastic bags.

[mrg00ddude]

hempplastic just put the dot and the com to go there its a site i found with google

[m31119]

Theres great potential from hemp-lime to be used in construction materials (major source of CO2), but I haven't heard anything regarding plastics

[m31119]

Actually, im a big supporter of BEV's and could care less about biodiesel. I was simply posturing that if we could use algae to produce oil, then we could use that oil to replace polymers and plastics sourced from crude oil.

[patchbod]

that idiot's going to be laughing on the wrong side of his face when oil is more expensive to produce than its worth. where will plastic go there?

[theedbarnes]

It really is.