", "We must immediately undertake a major program of unprecedented proportions to reverse this fast-moving tidal wave of growing negative public perception.. After a 30-minute drive, we reached a quiet neighborhood with an area hidden from the road. Modern-day miracles that were made with the help of petrochemicals. And yet it's become ground zero for The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, syphoning plastics from three distant continents. Our campaign to ban plastic bags in Bali - TED Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch | Apple TV Sun, Angela (film producer) Reduce the impact. Freemans boss at the time, Larry Thomas, the head of the Society of the Plastics Industry, was blunt about it. Angela Sun provides an excellent model of how one curious person can use her talents to follow her interests, speak from the heart, and contribute to improving the world. I mean, it says "sorts out the problems.". Most end up in the ocean, where they pollute the water and harm marine life; the rest are burned in garbage piles, where they release harmful dioxins into the atmosphere. Angela Sun is an award-winning journalist, sports caster, and filmmaker. ", "Thoughtful new documentary by @sunnyangela examines the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, @plasticdise plasticparadisemovie.com #ppgp2", "Offers some alarming information that might cause viewers to think twice, about buying one-time-use water bottles. Plastic films, plastic bags, the plastic wrapping that comes around a lot of packaged goods, that all goes into the garbage. Plastic Paradise | Bullfrog Films: 1-800-543-3764: Environmental DVDs and Educational DVDs is a leading source of educational DVDs & videos, with a collection of over 700 titles in these main subject areas: Environment Globalization Sustainability Climate Change Social Justice Developing World Indigenous Peoples Earth Science Life Science We wanted to see for ourselves what was happening to the plastic coming here. Planetsave'Sun offers a fresh, new voice for her generation and has made a film that can appeal to the masses.' Lets make more single-use plastics"dont buy into that. Kyoko Hamada is a photographer who was born in Tokyo and lives in Brooklyn. This is everywhere in every supermarket. Until there is a viable option for recycling those things, we should be putting it in a landfill. No transcript available. When we do that, we end up with bales that are more easy to sell and that are more easy for consumer goods companies to incorporate into their packaging. 'This is an issue of vast scales. So plastic came to be used in many applications because it performed better.