Plastic Planet - Trailer

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We live in the Age of Plastic. It's cheap and practical, and it's everywhere -- even in our blood. But is it a danger to us?

This feisty, informative documentary takes us on a journey around the globe - from the Moroccan Sahara to the middle of the Pacific Ocean, from a factory in China to the highest peaks of the Alps - to reveal the far-flung reaches of our plastic problem. Interviews with the world's foremost experts in biology, pharmacology, and genetics shed light on the perils of plastic to our environment and expose the truth of how plastic affects our bodies and the health of future generations.

With Original Music by the ORB.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• plastic
• hazards
• blood
• poison
• hormones
• bisphenol
• bpa
• polycarbonate
• petroleum

[AkaNomad00paranoid]

so can we touch running electrical appliances without any plastic ??

[firstrunfeaturesnyc]

@AkaNomad00paranoid

The point isn't that nobody should use any plastic ever, which isn't possible or desirable. The most important points are that companies should have to disclose what chemicals they are using in the products -- something that the manufacturers of products don't even know in most cases -- the health risks should be known and waste mitigated through regulation and legislation.

[vetodnb]

How ironic, selling a plastic DVD with this film.

just sell it for digital download ..., ohw wait that doesn't sell for as much as a dvd...

so u choose plastic after all that. mission accomplished.

[firstrunfeaturesnyc]

@vetodnb

We sell it digitally too, or as dvds in recycled small profile packaging. Everything we do consumes energy and resources, even electronic delivery. Isn't that a trifling complaint?

[vetodnb]

@firstrunfeaturesnyc : / that is the whole point, 1000 dvd's manufactured packaged and delivered or the same 1000 films downloaded from a single server ... you do/did the math. To consume less energy and more ecological energy, unless u have dvd's made from bio-degradable aluminum and polycarbonate...i think not. In 10 years your dvd's will be thrown out and replaced; the only place to still find your movie will be online. try explaining that to the fish in the sea. So still i call this ironic.

[firstrunfeaturesnyc]

@vetodnb I'm sure it would save the most energy and resources if someone just gave a lecture, but even making a movie requires plastic and so does most peoples preferred way of watching them. I think it's pointless to take your criticisms to such an extreme, by your route few would know about the health or environmental implications of major policy decisions involving plastic, nevermind a few more plastic dvds.

[AlguemGravou]

f"ck all plastic in this world!

[carrito1981]

Plastic cameras, plastic equipment, plastic computers, plastic internet - you remove plastic and all these advances go back in time - Ultimately the point here is that we're messing with a dirty technology that is bad for us or the planet; what we need is to find better ways to recycle it, and hopefully one day we can transcend it and find a material that suits our needs in a more sustainable way.

[VladiSSius]

yeah, we live in the Age of Plastic... plastic bottle, plastic canteen, plastic lunch box, plastic toy, plastic food... and plastic surgery! XD XD

[wvdpanhuysen]

Everyone should see this important documentary. Because this is about ourselves, our modern way of life, and the health and environmental consequences. After watching this film I view plastics totaly different than before watching the film. Congratulations to film director Werner Boote.

[NanaBaakan]

Plastics products are cheaper and more durable than glass or wood. Plastics are convenient, they can be carried with a lot less weight. Plastics are readily available. Clothing, food and just about everything that ain't wood or glass is made of some form of plastic. It has become the drug of choice & most people would rather have it. I was shocked to find that that plastics are made from crude oil! We are addicted. ranken-energy. com/Products%20from%20Petroleu­m.htm. Plastic suffocates or planet

[NanaBaakan]

@geoff2204 i TOTALLY AGREE! There has got to be some technology that can or has been developed to make plastics less harmful to the environment. By and large, we swim in plastic, inside and outside of our bodies. But if this video is raising consciousness about it then cheers. Demand is key, as after the Gulf Oil Spill, everyone was angry with BP but they didn't stop using oil by product-plastic. It would take a major change in lifestyle that folks are not ready for, not overnight, poco un poco.

[Bachtro]

Awesome Movie!! ...it is everywhere ...game over

[geoff2204]

Yes. Plastic was used in the making and distribution of this documentary.

Yes it would be more philosophically sound to use, say, wood and stone.

But it wouldn't have been made. And nobody would have seen it.

If the film results in a far greater reduction in the use of plastic than was used in its creation, then mission accomplished.

[rvpsmdsk]

plastic computer