Plastic Wars

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Plastic Wars (full film) | FRONTLINE

Have efforts to solve the plastic pollution problem made it worse? Go inside the battle over plastics, recycling and what’s at stake.

[Victor_c3]

1. Thanks for posting. I just watched the whole thing n/t

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2. You're Welcome!

I am glad you did. It is a good update on the issue.

Frontline does some good journalism overall.

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3. It's over

There are no solutions. There won't be any. No alternatives to packaging. No mention of trash to steam and scrubbers. No reusables for non-food items. Few reuse plastic bags. I don't buy hard plastics to the greatest extent possible. There are a few metal containers - tea, oil, coffee - and a few paper. Buying from local farmers is transportation and plastic free. I see no solution, no will, no financial model that will payoff. This will continue until populations are declining from all the pollution.

I remember in the 1980s they were going to solve the plastic bag problem by making plastic bags that decomposed with sun and rain by mixing plastic resin with corn starch. I got one of those bags, hung it on a fence post outside .... nothing ever happened to it. Never decomposed a bit, never even split. Just one more big lie.

The chemical companies have won, or at least have defeated humans. They kept mentioning Dupont, but you know there were all the German companies from the late 1800s to the 1940s. They all had a hand in development.