The Story of Plastic, directed by Deia Schlosberg
The Story of Plastic takes a sweeping look at the man-made crisis of plastic pollution and the worldwide effect it has on the health of our planet and the people who inhabit it. It is presented by The Story of Stuff Project and is a member of BreakFreeFromPlastic.org
Available on Amazon.
RiverBlue, directed by David McIlvride, Roger Williams
Following international river conservationist, Mark Angelo, RiverBlue spans the globe to infiltrate one of the world’s most pollutive industries, fashion.
Available on Amazon, iTunes, Vimeo, YouTube, Google Play, and dotstudio
Plastic China, directed by Jiu-liang Wang
Director Jiu-liang Wang captures the striking, melancholic beauty of a vast and lifeless artificial landscape—a Chinese countryside covered almost entirely in imported plastic. Men and women build lives upon this waste, and children learn about the outside world through tattered western advertisements and tabloid images.
Available on Amazon
The True Cost, directed by Andrew Morgan
The True Cost is a 2015 documentary film directed by Andrew Morgan that focuses on fast fashion. It discusses several aspects of the garment industry from production — mainly exploring the life of low-wage workers in developing countries — to its after-effects such as river and soil pollution, pesticide contamination, disease, and death.
Available on Amazon
A Plastic Ocean, directed by Craig Leeson
A Plastic Ocean is a new award-winning feature length documentary brought to you by a group of dedicated scientists, film-makers, social entrepreneurs, scholars, environmentalists and journalists, that explores the fragile state of our oceans and uncovers alarming truths about the consequences of our disposable lifestyle.
Available on Netflix
Chasing Coral, directed by Jeff Orlowski
Chasing Coral is a 2017 documentary film about a team of divers, scientists and photographers around the world who document the disappearance of coral reefs. Chasing Coral was produced by Exposure Labs and directed by Jeff Orlowski.
Available on Netflix
Wasted! The Story of Food Waste, directed by Anna Chai, Nari Kye
An informative and entertaining documentary produced by celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain, Wasted! takes you around the world, showing the 1.3 billion tons of food that gets thrown out each year and the people fighting hardest to prevent it.
Available on Amazon
Bag It: Is Your Life Too Plastic? directed by Suzan Beraza
A 2010 American documentary film exposing the effects of plastic bags and other plastic consumer merchandise, and its effects on land ecosystems, the marine environment, and the human body.
Available on Netflix DVD only
Minimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things
How might your life be better with less? Minimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things examines the many flavors of minimalism by taking the audience inside the lives of minimalists from all walks of life — families, entrepreneurs, architects, artists, journalists, scientists, and even a former Wall Street broker — all of whom are striving to live a meaningful life with less.
Available online at iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, Vimeo, Netflix; available in North America on DVD
The plastic problem isn’t your fault but you can be part of the solution
Do chemicals in plastic consumer products contribute to obesity?
The urgency of addressing “forever chemicals”
WBUR ‘On Point’ podcast: How Microplastics Affect Human Health
The Plastic Problem – A PBS NewsHour Documentary
By 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in the oceans. It’s an environmental crisis that’s been in the making for nearly 70 years. Plastic pollution is now considered one of the largest environmental threats facing humans and animals globally. In “The Plastic Problem: PBS NewsHour Presents”, Amna Nawaz and her PBS NewsHour colleagues look at this now ubiquitous material and how it’s impacting the world, why it’s become so prevalent, what’s being done to mitigate its use, and what potential alternatives or solutions are out there. This hour-long program travels from Boston to Seattle, Costa Rica to Easter Island to bring the global scale of the problem to light.
Presentations
NPR – All Things Considered 3/31/2020:
Plastic Wars: Industry Spent Millions Selling Recycling — To Sell More Plastic (4 minutes)
With the plastic industry expanding like never before and the crisis of ocean pollution growing, FRONTLINE and NPR investigate the fight over the future of plastics. (Season 2020 Episode 14):
Plastic Wars (54 minutes)
The Guardian Feb 18, 2020: Your recycling doesn’t always end up where you think it does.
Plastic Waste is Clogging Landfills