If you get moldy at home, you might as well watch a movie and be a good citizen of the world.

Plastic

Has become an integral part of our lives.

Reduce costs and facilitate life

It seems that after using it and throwing it into the trash can,

It has nothing to do with us anymore.

Lego toys

"you have to know these things about plastics! "

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However, in fact

The speed of production and use of plastics far exceeds its degradation rate.

Such a large amount of waste plastic

Where will it go?

Can the environment bear its harm?

Can human beings be left alone?

I hope the following documentaries will help you know more about plastic pollution.

Plastic pollution in the ocean

1. Plastic Ocean (UK, 2016, Douban score 9.1)

Official poster of "plastic Ocean"

At the beginning of the film, director Craig Craig Leeson, who loved whales since childhood, excitedly said that he was finally able to film them 40 years later.

Screenshot of the documentary "plastic Ocean"

However, after obtaining the first photo of a young dwarf blue whale in the water, I didn't expect an even bigger surprise behind--

In the Indian Ocean off the coast of Sri Lanka, a sea that was supposed to be pure and blue after commercial fishing halted by the civil war was covered with grease and rubbish, and the sea was covered with plastic.

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Screenshot of the documentary "plastic Ocean"

The director took this opportunity to visit more than 20 locations around the world in four years to investigate the impact of marine plastic problems on the environment and human life.

Get a series of amazing data:

Each person uses and discards 136 kilograms of disposable plastic products a year.

Every year, about 8 million tons of plastic are dumped into the ocean, 70% of which sink to the bottom of the sea.

About 1 trillion plastic bags are used worldwide every year, an average of 2 million per minute, while the average use……

Subvert latent cognition

Looking at the sparkling sea without a piece of plastic, there are in fact a large number of plastic fragments floating.

After eating these plastics, sea creatures transfer toxins to muscles and fats. Toxins eventually accumulate in the human body along the food chain.

Screenshot of the documentary "plastic Ocean"

Threats are within reach

A large number of living things died because of plastic.

As Craig said, "We tell you this story, because understanding is accompanied by care, and care breeds change."

It sounds like a long way to change the world, but after watching this film, you may find that it is not difficult to change the world by changing yourself.

The relationship between Plastics and developing countries

II. Plastic Kingdom (China, 2016)

The documentary depicts the lives of two families who make a living by recycling plastic waste imported from developed countries, winning the IDFA Rookie Unit jury Award.

Before the ban on foreign waste was formally implemented in January 2018, China was the world's largest importer of plastic waste, receiving 10 million tons of waste each year from most developed countries in the world.

The plastic waste is reborn into raw materials through the recycling bin and sent back to the country of origin with new faces (such as clothes and toys).

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11-year-old Yi Jie and her family live and work in the recycling bin of "foreign garbage". Although her father promised to send her to school five years ago, he never fulfilled it.

A small packet of discarded instant black powder told her about the bitterness of coffee; British children learned cards to teach her the words "summer" and "Father's Day"; and broken Barbie was her best friend-that's how Yijie knew the world.

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Kun is the owner of the recycling bin and earns money from the work of the Yijie family. Even though he is in a better position, he is afraid of being looked down upon because of poverty. He tries hard to make money and save money to buy a car, but neglects the physical and mental health problems of himself and his family.

The film shows the true face of China at that time-the fragile side behind its prosperity and development.

The poverty, disease, pollution and even death behind the bare-handed recycling of plastic also reflects the negative effects of globalization. Therefore, the fundamental solution to the problem requires global power, and each of us should play a role in it.

Plastics and people's health

III. Plastic Planet (Austria / Germany, 2009, Douban score 8.5)

For director Werner Boote, the theme of the documentary was slightly "personal"-his grandfather was an early plastic manufacturing executive, but Werner came to realize that he had paid a heavy price for plastic, the environment and human health.

For example, plastics can stay underground and in water for hundreds of years and slowly release chemicals (such as bisphenol A), which can cause many health problems-from cancer to heart disease to infertility.

So he visited 14 countries to interview plastic-related subjects-from executives in the plastics industry to experts in fields such as biology and genetics-to explore the proliferation of plastic products in life and the impact of plastics on the natural environment and human health.

Werner calls the current era the "plastic age", although synthetic polymers have only been on the market for about 100 years.

In the film, he asks people to show off how much plastic they have in their homes-whether it's medium-sized houses in Japan, Austria and the United States or shacks in India.