i-D, a slightly more artier imprint of the magazine organisation VICE - created this documentary/advertisement called 'The Plastic Age' - which highlights a lot of the problems with plastic that i've been investigating with my research.
I think this documentary needs to be taken with a pinch of salt; as I said, i'm rather skeptical of its true intentions given that it's being used to market a line of Pharrell Williams-endorsed G-Star RAW clothes (though it IS creating using a recycled plastic polymer thread known as 'bionic wool')
However - theres a lot of really interesting and quite shocking statistics, particularly about plastic in relation to the levels of plankton in the sea (which is rapidly being replaced by the plastic now) and also about the nature of where the plastic ends up - on shores millions and millions of miles away from its origins. Its especially an issue in countries like Hawaii, who are stuck slap in the middle of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (a massive floating patch of plastic that is corralled together by oceans currents) - where hundreds of tonnes of plastic is being dumped on their shores every day.
The information from this will be useful in furthering my research.
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