Thats what it looks like when it comes in. Thomas wrote a confidential memo in 1989 about the precarious position the industry was in. How are those two things going to meet anywhere in the middle? But as we continued our reporting in Oregon, we heard about a surprisingly similar effort that took place more than 25 years ago at a recycling company 50 miles away called Garten Services. Her film articulates this message in a way that will resonate with anyone that cares about nature and the environment. To appease government officials, the industry funded a local recycling pilot project. When the recycling market in China went away, Bagaria and other brokers scrambled to find a new home for their plastic, and countries like Indonesia saw a business opportunity. What are we looking at? 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A growing backlash was threatening the future of plastic. The smell of burnt plastic was in the air, and all around, there were sacks of plastic, and big piles, too. General Information . So if the California market changes, we know it's going to put pressure on the kind of products that are out there. In the last 20 years weve seen more environmental degradations and environmental problems in Indonesia. Brand-name companies that used plastic were facing bans on their products. How much responsibility do you feel like you have over what's happening here? 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The film takes a refreshing approach of avoiding the blame game, while emphasizing that learning about the issue can lead to less plastic use by the general public.' Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Trailer Angela Sun 01:58 Description Reviews Credits Cataloging Thousands of miles away from civilization, Midway Atoll is in one of the most remote places on earth. I think its a transitional moment. I think thats true. This poor sea turtle, a straw stuck in its nose, It would attract more than 35 million views. And then they said its from Harvest, they call it. Dont tell me thats a freaking straw. No, this is about all of us understanding that we each have a role to play in making the system that we have better and achieving the goals thatI think everybody would have to say we cannot continue with business as usual. Its facing opposition to the construction of new plants. Conversely, plastics can also absorb pollutants, such as PCBs, from the seawater. Americans discard more trash than any other country in the world. The host takes a 2-year trip around the world to give us a better understanding of the life cycle of plastic It's . Sun, Angela (film director) I watched the film with some of my students so I can attest that it appeals to the younger generation. That's a 3,000% increase in just a few short years. A dead seal or sea lion? But later we surely realized that there was always another aspect of what was going on in China. Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Let's get these bills passed. That wasnt the intent. STATE REP. LORENA GONZALEZ (D-San Diego): Yeah. One in every 10 Americans took part in rallies, concerts and. And Im afraid that the same thing is happening right now. Forty years on, despite a plastic crisis thats been getting worse, the industrys future seems bright. Whats happening with K-Cups? According to the filmmaker, plastic debris collects in this fashion because a combination of gyres (large systems of rotating ocean currents) serve as catchment basins, and debris that would. It was a critical moment. We took a seat by the side of the road and she showed me pictures she'd collected of plastic that locals said had been dumped here. Dr. Mike SanClements, Staff Scientist, The National Ecological Observatory Network, Affiliate Faculty, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado-Boulder'Sun's documentary sends a clear and coherent message about one of the major environmental problems we face today. Would any of the trash be harmless?Use this encyclopedia article on food webs and the article on coral reef food webs to introduce students to a typical coral reef food web. We have to separate paper, and then the metals and then the plastics. Well, that is a challenge. He told me he could take me to a place where the company had recently been dumping plastic. There is no program in Oregon that wants this in the curbside mix. And this was in 1973. Smokejumping is the pinnacle of wild land firefighting. I highly recommend checking this film out!' All rights reserved. Plastic is different than any EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler was talking up the future of recycling. They're not going to be able to continue to drill that oil and gas and burn it for energy anymore because the climate can't sustain it, so this is their lifeline. It provides valuable information and presents that information in an engaging and visually gripping way.' Coy Smith ran recycling centers in Southern California in the 1980s and early '90s. Looks like a lot of shipping containers. For scrap. 1. And that's the way recycling has been sold as well, OK? Its going to be the largest plant of its kind in the world. It really became a metaphor of, "We are bumping up against limits here. Plastic Paradise is the first documentary to chronicle the rise, fall, and resurgence of tiki, or Polynesian pop, one of the defining cultural trends of postwar America. The group had a plan and turned to a veteran of the industry, Ron Liesemer, to execute it. So this is classic. This confusion about what can and cant be recycled, and where plastic ultimately ends up, is no accident. People can stop it. But the proof here is the dramatic amount of investment that's happening right now. Some were very skeptical but felt they had to do it. There shouldn't be any more talk about it! If the oil industry is able to get 100% of the material recycled. Planetsave'Sun offers a fresh, new voice for her generation and has made a film that can appeal to the masses.' Docuseek2 is a streaming platform of the best documentary and social issue films available for the higher education community. Demand for low-cost plastic continues to grow, and the production of new plastic is rapidly expanding. Polystyrene, PET, PVC, polypropylene. Hi, Im Laura Sullivan, NPR and PBS FRONTLINE. It provides valuable information and presents that information in an engaging and visually gripping way.' By 2050, its estimated that global production of plastic will triple. Until there is a viable option for recycling those things, we should be putting it in a landfill. The most famous one, with the crying Indian. This film makes the case that the only solution is source control, and that consumers have a great deal of underutilized power.' On a bright day last summer, Larson and fellow . We could ship scrap and hope that it is being recycled in the way it should be, or the other way is come here, see how serious he is about doing it the right way. No. Now here we are again in a crisis. In an underwater paradise, a plastic nightmare. They wanted raw material. She or he will best know the preferred format. This is from California. Angela Sun is an award-winning journalist, sports caster, and filmmaker. Industry would only switch to a triangle, which recyclers said was too similar to the chasing arrows. I would say that this package is rarely recycled in most parts in the country. But it isnt just industry thats kept consumers focused on recycling for so long. Recyclers and the plastic makers couldn't agree on how to change the code. Last fall, I met up with Bagaria there. That all originates with us. New Harvestindo eventually got back to us and denied it was responsible for doing anything that damaged the environment. We follow Angela Sun while she investigates the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which is where the plastic waste of three different continents accumulates. I mean, it says "sorts out the problems.". They created the Council for Solid Waste Solutions, drawn from their ranks of big oil and petrochemical companies that made plastic, like Amoco, Chevron, Dow and Exxon. [CDATA[ It would. 2023 Docuseek, LLC All rights reserved. So, I understand that there's a lot of skepticism around that, because the systems today have not kept pace. This package here is technically recyclable. Welcome to EPAs 2019 America Recycles Innovation Fair. What about all of these? Plastics are once again on the low end of the public's opinion and now the industry is telling the public again to recycle. Go to some other symbol, just not the triangle. In South Portland, the plastic industry was showcasing a demonstration project. Construction will eventually employ 6,000 people. Step into the world of man-made materials that take up where nature left off. So, if somebody throws their Tide bottle into their bin, thats a win, but what youre saying is youre seeing more and more of this stuff. Back in Oregon, I put the question to David Allaway. What we put in our recycling bins ends up in sorting plants like this one, outside of Portland. So, we dont think banning these products is necessarily the right way to go. Our newest CALI Award winner is Angela Sun - Storyteller, Adventure Traveller, Sports Lover. And now Im what I've always wanted to be. JERRED JONES, Program representative, Keep America Beautiful: We are Keep America Beautiful. Along the way she meets scientists, researchers, influencers, and volunteers who shed light on the effects of our rabid plastic consumption and learns the problem is more insidious than we could have ever imagined. So, contaminated plastic trash is as big a problem for you guys as narcotics and drugs coming into the country. It did a good job of doing what it was asked to do; it made life more efficient and easier. The Legislature wants to impose new fees on plastic makers and restrict single-use plastics. I think we were overly optimistic about the potential of recycling, and perpetuating that narrative led us astray. It's huge and very wide. The whole idea about, "Oh, just sort better. I believe with the proper infrastructure and the proper education and we all work together as a collective, we can. Amazing work!' Were they? Eleven billion. And this one talks about the cost of separating plastics from other trash. That turtle video certainly did have an impact. We support, actually, the ACC goalsAmerican Chemistry Councilgoals of getting plastic waste out of landfills by, I think the date is 2040. 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Their . When you look at plastic, you know how it helps things stay fresh and safe and light. How much water was withdrawn to produce this product? It has the recycling logo. This is plastic that has no home, so it's your clamshells, Ziploc bags, film, a CD, a food wrapper. The film is excellent--in its timeliness, its depth, and its presentation. I dont think so, because when I looked at them, at the arrows, I thought this is a way to identify the products so that the early stages of recycling can take place. I think we were naive. Every single piece of this has to be sorted in some way. Over the past year, weve been investigating the plastic crisis and found that many of the problems we face today were set in motion decades ago, by the very companies who make plastic in the first place. Dr. Joel Baker, Director, UW Puget Sound Institute, Professor and Port of Tacoma Chair in Environmental Science, University of Washington Tacoma'Angela Sun has found a way to present the imminent dangers of plastics pollution in a jarringly visual and inquisitive formatSignificant take-home messages include a misconception of just how few plastic products are recyclable, and that plastics production will continue to increase as long as the demand for plastic products remains. The Midwest Book Review'Intriguing..chilling filmJournalist Angela Sun offers valuable new insights.' Dr. Patricia Corcoran, Associate Professor of Earth Sciences, University of Western Ontario'Angela Sun spoke with all the right people and even went to places she wasn't supposed to go in order to present the full story on plastic pollution. Welcome to Portland. Once in the ocean there is really no way to get it out, other than hope that it washes up on a shore and is collected. We wanted to see for ourselves what was happening to the plastic coming here. MALE SPEAKER: I don't want to pull it too hard. There's nothing wrong with promoting recycling except when recycling sucks all the oxygen out of the room and we never do anything else. I remember being a kid and watching those ads. Sun, Angela (film director) Honolulu Pulse'Offers some alarming information that might cause viewers to think twice about buying one-time-use water bottles.' I mean, how big a problem do you think these kinds of dumping grounds are in Indonesia? I mean, for most states they did it in, recyclers didnt even know it happened. A bunch of small but . So this is how it looks like when they burn it. They say residents will put all their plastic containers in one bag. Producers should disclose the environmental impacts of their materials publicly. A piece of plastic debris that's been colonized by both costal barnacles (pink and striped) and a gooseneck . Like in the '90s, the industry has been spending money on ads. The producers know what the environmental impacts of these different formats are, but they don't disclose it. But even as Liesemer and his colleagues were publicly promoting recycling, privately, the industry had long expressed doubt it was ever going to happen on a broad scale. "Some firms used it as a green marketing tool." Plastic Paradise 1) Why is plastic different than any other substance on Earth? Bagaria had come to make sure his plastic was actually being recycled and turned into tiny pellets that are used to make new plastic products. You could recycle this in a lab. I strongly recommend this film as an instructional tool to connect ecology, communication, and global service. 57 min. The voyage she completes can motivate students to discover more about pollution of all kinds on their own. My college age son thinks it is 'right on.' We flip it over. When you get a bale of plastic, how much of that bale is plastic that the company wants and how much of it is stuff that is just plastic that youre not going to do anything with? Were going into the office. [Speaking Indonesian] It depends on the condition of the bales. But thats not what weve been told for decades, as the things we buy have been increasingly packaged in plastic. ", And this document was candid: There is serious doubt widespread plastic recycling can ever be made viable on an economic basis.. A year? "It's a very clear, concise and easily absorbed portrait of what's happening and what needs to happen. Plastic enters the world's oceans, is broken into tiny bits, and ingested by marine life and birds. What does coral treat? It needs improvement. A PLASTIC OCEAN. Please inquire if you are with a K-12 district or school or with a public library. Once again, the industry is pushing recycling. His company buys throwaway plastic from some of the largest big-box stores in the U.S. For the last 40 years, the conversation in this country has been about the recycle part of "reduce, reuse, recycle.". Recycle, bury, what to do with it? And theres nothing wrong in an industry promoting those kinds of things, but thats not addressing the problem that people are criticizing you about. We need to confirm if the data that we have is correct or not. Were a not-for-profit. and industry is investing tens of billions of dollars in new plastic plants. In this video I take you on a Swap Meet tour where we will se. People all around the country bought that line and thought it was our responsibility to take care of litter. Making recycling work was a way to keep their products in the marketplace. Another priority is narcotics. Because we are struggling to clean up the modern debris and modern litter in Indonesia, the additional burden of waste from overseas, I dont know how we are going to handle it. From 1990 to 2010, production more than doubled. Timothy Hoellein, Aquatic Ecologist, Assistant Professor of Biology, Loyola University'With fantastic archival footage, revealing modern images from the pacific and thoughtful, fact-based explanation, Plastic Paradise provides an educational, hip, and very entertaining look at some of the many ways plastic is affecting us all. Made from readily available petroleum, plastic was the go-to material for the war machine. As the film stated, plastic is the third biggest industry in the USA. So the big plastic producers came up with a multimillion-dollar solution: advertising. Plastic Paradise looks to make difference with plastic consumption By Stephanie Shinno The Garden Island | Sunday, July 11, 2021, 12:05 a.m. Share this story Contributed by Abe Kowitz Abe. I dont think this kind of advertising is helpful to them at all. How big can the trash get? There's also an entire industry that's going to triple production by 2050. [Chanting] Save our Earth! Yeah, this is totally American. We're covered in plastic-based gear from head to toe. For information on user permissions, please read our Terms of Service. To preview films or license them for streaming, you must register and login. We need more work. Instead, what they disclose is the recycling logo. An endangered sea turtle? Theres no one that would even take it if I paid them to take it." Have we made any progress? There are a lot of different kinds of plastics that have to be sorted. A major showdown is shaping up in California. What makes our lives convenient is burying us. The industry found another way to promote plastic using recycling. ", Now youre getting more mixed plastics, like pouches andeverything comes in a clamshell now. Reveals the history and worldwide scope of plastics pollution, investigates its toxicity and explores solutions. They wanted us to sort plastics when people thought plastics might be starting to be a problem. One of those companies is DuPont, and on the grounds of the first du Pont family home, I found the Hagley Library. In 2017, however, researchers surveying the islands beaches found the highest concentration of plastic trash ever recorded.In this infographic, the colored dots show the amount of plastic and other trash collected in one survey plot. Oh, poor baby, Im sorry. Our system is woefully inadequate and it needs dramatic investment. Let me continue to use it. Lead editor, Wendy Shuey; cinemtaography, Francisco Aliwalas [and 6 others]; music by APM Music [and 6 others]. The big problem is that it is all about money, profits. Kyoko Hamada is a photographer who was born in Tokyo and lives in Brooklyn. What once was glass will soon be plastic. This is the big war. October 7, 2013 by The CALI Award. We have not had any model shows around here in a long time! Dr. Garen Baghdasarian, Professor of Biology, Chair of Life Sciences, Santa Monica College'Filmmaker Angela Sun tells a compelling story about the plethora of harmful impacts associated with non-degradable plastic, particularly in regard to the marine environment, while recognizing that the properties of plastic have enhanced our quality of life in many ways. We cannot keep just continuing this mindless consumerism, mindless consumption and dump it somewhere else. Remember, a lot of the plastic packaging that you have in your kitchen is recyclable. Soto, Tanya Leal (film producer). You also have to really build up the infrastructure for collection. Dr. Mike SanClements, Staff Scientist, The National Ecological Observatory Network, Affiliate Faculty, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado-Boulder'Sun's documentary sends a clear and coherent message about one of the major environmental problems we face today. We took a trek up to Wilmington and this one DuPont executive, he said, "I think if we had $5 million"which seemed like a lot of money then"if we had $5 million, we could solve this problem.". See it and share it with others!' I met up with Yuyun Ismawati in a small rural community nearby. The big problem is that it is all about money, profits. This is a pile of U.S. recycling. John Wesley Hyatt took up the challenge. So they knew that these problems existed. In the business, theyre called "mixed plastics. I had no staff. "The code is being misused.". Timothy Hoellein, Aquatic Ecologist, Assistant Professor of Biology, Loyola University'With fantastic archival footage, revealing modern images from the pacific and thoughtful, fact-based explanation, Plastic Paradise provides an educational, hip, and very entertaining look at some of the many ways plastic is affecting us all. It didnt make any sense. The problem, recyclers said, is that it left the impression that all those kinds of plastics were actually being recycled. Glass? My college age son thinks it is 'right on.' For the oil and gas industry, the stakes are higher, too, because single-use plastic is their Plan B. View Plastic Paradise Worksheet.pdf from CHEM 1405 at Killeen Early College High School. They float in the water and get eaten by sea life. No transcript available. They are going to double down on single-use plastic like we have never seen, so we're heading towards a real battle. [Speaking Indonesian] If its not useful, we put it into the community. Sarah Appleton, National Geographic Society. David Allaway is a senior policy analyst with the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality. And by impacts, I don't mean whether or not it can be recycled. Less than 10% of plastic has actually ever been recycled. Dr. Sherri A. Mason, Professor of Chemistry, Environmental Sciences Program Coordinator, SUNY at Fredonia'We are all familiar with trash, but most of us likely are unaware of indestructible plastic trash that pollutes the oceans, contaminates our seafood, kills birds, fish, and marine mammals as well as carrying toxic substances into the environment and our bodies. And when it comes to understanding and reducing the environmental impacts of materials, including packaging, consumers have the lowest amount of leverage. In small groups, explore the impact of ocean plastics on coral reef species by having students research the impact of ghost nets on sea turtles, the ingestion of plastic by Pacific seabirds, and the ingestion of plastic particles by coral polyps. Along the way she meets scientists, researchers, influencers, and volunteers who shed light on the effects of our rabid plastic consumption and learns the problem is more insidious than we could have ever imagined. infective endocarditis ati quizlet, bank of america controlled disbursement atlanta dekalb county, georgia,
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