Plasticized

an oceanic catastrophe

APPROPIATE

2011 / 48min.

Rating6.5

Genres

Documentary

Synopsis

PLASTICIZED is a film that places the viewer aboard a transatlantic expedition, as if one of the crew, revealing the unembellished evidence that the human footprint has reached every corner of the earth, even if we have not been there. Despite rumors of massive garbage islands, an immeasurable amount of plastic pollution of all sizes is floating throughout every major ocean in the world. With the numerous ghost nets of trash or larger windrows of rubbish dominating the the occasional headlines, tiny bits of plastic particulate from frail chunks is the overwhelming contaminant that is secretly infiltrating all levels of sea life like a cancer.

Directors

Actors

Anna Cummins

Marcus Eriksen

Chelsea Rochman

Stiv J. Wilson

Bonnie Monteleone

Clive Cosby

Michael J. Lutman

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