It’s a heart-wrenching topic, and nevertheless a beautiful and absolutely critical documentary – A Plastic Ocean. This new film follows researchers across all oceans to examine just how much plastic pollution has been accumulated in the sea. They watch how it behaves in the water, and what it does to the biology of ocean life, from fish to mammals, turtles, and seabirds – and directly to humans as well.
Life on this planet depends on the health of our oceans. A Plastic Ocean captures this connection we all share with the sea and brings us a serious – and very visual – warning of the plastic pollution problem that we are facing. It’s staggering, and yet some early solutions to this problem are being developed already, as we will hear from one of the chief scientists of the film.
Host Helge Hellberg in an organic conversation with Bonnie Monteleone, Executive Director, Director of Science, Research and Academic Partnerships at Plastic Oceans Project, Wilmington, N.C.
Originally posted 2017-02-27 10:31:39.
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A documentary so timely, and profoundly captures the most pressing environmental issue that is plaguing the Pacific Ocean today. We see it’s impact (plastic pollution) so vividly in Solomon Islands, it’s heart wrenching, and disturbing. All should be made aware of this issue, but strong measures of controlling and managing waste disposal should come from our Pacific governments. We would like to share this story/documentary with our network of communities. How do we get a copy.
I wish we are more open to recycling and just stop using soo much plastic. It is awful and we do cause so many unnecessay changes to the Earth.