How to deal with the ecological threat posed by plastic waste?
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 20:35 PM
repeats:
14.01.2010 to 10: 15
The plastic curse
(Germany, 2007, 85mn)
A wacky and very documented round-the-world trip.
Cities and countryside, mountains and deserts, rivers and seabed: plastic waste has invaded everything. While this material has only been around for a century, it will still pollute our environment in thousands of years. The report is alarming, but awareness is beginning to be made on a global scale. Not only is it important to make fewer plastic objects, containers and packaging, but their recycling could be improved. Companies now offer alternative solutions. The stylists get involved and offer decorative items, dresses and accessories in recycled plastic! It would also be possible to make materials with the same virtues as plastic but biodegradable, using plants. Bioplastic, so to speak. A fascinating journey alternating between shock images (garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean, Indian open dumps, the beaches of Hawaii ...) and words of experts.
http://www.arte.tv/fr/semaine/244,broad ... =2010.html