Below are links of resources, from animated shorts to news reports to documentary films.
Fraud of Plastic Recycling
Center for Climate Integrity
February 2024 / report
A report documenting how the fossil fuel industry and the plastics industry (part of what Pezzullo calls “the plastics-industrial complex”) deceived the public for decades and caused the plastic waste crisis.
Coke Knew Their Plastic Would Trash the Planet…And Did It Anyway
The Story of Stuff
October 4, 2023 / 12 min 4 sec
Clear, investigative short video on the history of Coca-Cola’s decisions in the 20th century when they switched from glass, refillable bottles to promoting single-use plastics and the idea that our litter is more important than their structural decisions.
Trashed: The Secret Life of Plastic Recycling
ABC News
May 24, 2023 / 28 min 23 sec
Timely video on what happens to plastic bags in the US. Features frontline incinerator communities in Pennsylvania and New York, as well as Prof. Judith Enck of Beyond Plastics.
#PlasticFreeJuly 2022
Greenpeace and the broader #BreakFreeFromPlastic coalition
2022. Animated Short. Culture jamming with a solution at the end…
Transcript and audio also available at link.
Plastic Wars
PBS Frontline
March 31, 2020 / 54m
Season 2020: Episode 14
March 31, 2020 / 54m
Season 2020: Episode 14
Transcript and audio also available at link.
The Story of Plastic
The Story of Stuff Project
2020. Animated Short. On this website, they also offer an interactive personality quiz to help assess how might become more involved.
The Story of Plastic
The Story of Stuff Project & Outcast Films.
2020. Feature length documentary film.
Click on the link to arrange a screening and find more resources about plastics.
Bloomberg tracks London plastics
Bloomberg (news).
2022. 12:59 minutes. Video reporting where three plastic bags placed in London recycling went using trackers.
“Dirty Money”
Point Comfort (Television).
March 11, 2020. 1 hour.
Click on the link for more information about Formosa Plastics in Texas; available on Netflix.
Plastic China
Documentary. Dir: Jiuliang Wang.
2017. 1 hour 22 minutes. On plastic recycling in China prior to the National Sword Policy.
The Plastic Age
i-D. Documentary. Dir. Jake Sumner.
2015. 17:44 minutes.
Featuring Pharrell Williams, a documentary on the plastics crisis.
Blue Vinyl
Documentary Film. Dir. Judith Helfand & Daniel B. Gold.
2002. 1 hour 38 mins. Youth (who also is a cancer survivor) provides a comedic, skeptical account of questioning her parents’ decision to put PVC on the side of their Long Island, NY, home. Goes to Louisiana, California, and Venice.
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