Plastic Resources

PLASTIC is a short (five minute) film portal to an interactive app. Based on when you click during the film, our recommender system designs your customized earthDECK with links to stories recommended based on your interests. More than fifty years ago Dustin Hoffman was advised in The Graduate: “One word. PLASTICS.” The power of the media made plastics a hot career. As The Graduate foretold, plastic production has boomed to twenty times what it was fifty years ago and now has changed our civilization and environment in significant ways. Our five minute short film PLASTIC is a fast montage leading to the realization that “We’ve got to clean up this plastic.” There are resources within this interactive app. In addition, we recommend these articles from our sister site, earthDECKS.net

ARTICLES – Plastic Hazards & Initiatives
Adverse Health Effects of Plastic
Circular Economy: Dame Ellen MacArthur
Complex Systems Problems
Cradle to Grave: Plastic Supply Chain
Enshrouded in Plastic
ESRI – Mapping & Visualizing Data
Floater Technology for Ocean Cleanup
Global Ocean Sensing
Industry Response to the Plastic Challenge
Learning for a Plastic World
Leonardo DiCaprio – Saving Our Planet
Nature’s Innovators: plastic consumers
Ocean Debris Network
Ocean Ingenuity
Oceans – Measuring Planet Health
Plastic Futures – PLASTIC, a short media piece
PLASTIC Innovation
PLASTIC: Overview of National Leadership
Plastic in Your Drinking Water, Table Salt & Mother’s Milk
Plastic Pollution Coalition: Campaign vs Single Use Plastic
Plastic Roads – Global Innovation System
Plastic Strategies for Innovation
The Plasticene
Plastiki: adventure stories & a big message
Raising Awareness of Plastic Hazards

In addition, a range of organizations are working on the grave plastic challenge that humankind has created for all of life on Earth, which now boomerangs back as we find plastic in our table salt, drinking water, and food and even mother’s milk. On the positive side, there has been a groundswell of innovation to find plastic substitutes and ways to clean up and recycle plastic trash. See links below to some of the organizations working on this problem.

Plastic CLEANUP – Global Initiatives
The Ocean Cleanup
Seabin Project
Stow It-Don’t Throw It Project

Plastic CLEANUP – Local NGOs
5 GYRES – empowering action against the global health crisis of plastic pollution through science, education, and adventure
Break Free from Plastic
Control Plastic
eXXpedition
The Longest Swim
Ocean Champions
Ocean Defenders Alliance
Ocean Voyages Institute
One World One Ocean
Plastic Ocean Project
Searious Business
The Story of Stuff Project

Plastic – Recycled Plastic Products
Norton Point
POPSICASE

Plastic – Food
Sea Sick Fish

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