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The Majestic Plastic Bag – A Mockumentary

A very well made mockumentary about the plastic bag in it’s environment. Unseen wildlife footage and night scenes included. Will it make it to the ocean and find peace on the plastic patch island?

Learn more at http://www.healthebay.org

For part 2 maybe a the encounter with the ocean clean up

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Bananas are the new plastic

Normally petroleum is used to produce plastic. But Elif Bilgin invented a new method using bananas to produce Bio-Plastic. The future is banana

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Plastic as a feedstock – Three different benefits

An estimated amount of 200 million tons of plastic is produced every year. Plastic needs 500 to 3,000 years to decompose. What should we do with all this plastic that we produce, use and waste every year? 

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The Ocean Clean Up

The problem is big: 7,250,000,000 Pounds – that is the estimated amount of plastic in our oceans. Boyan Slat is a student of the university in Delft (NL) and he came up with a solution for this problem.