Plastic

This is a collection from other pages, but may not be complete, so see also Solid Waste, chemicals, Consumption and Sustainability

Video

UCSC SciCom student Amy E. West published an article Santa Cruz nonprofit hopes to make fuel from ocean-based plastic (also video with links). Solar powered catamaran will make fuel (make your own pyrolysis device). You can help, contact Rita Chaffin

UCSC's Finkelstein on PBS NewsHour on plastic text and video 11/08

UCSC video of deep sea plastic.

Capt. Charles Moore of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation first discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch -- an endless floating waste of plastic trash.

The Story of Bottled Water from the people who brought you The Story of Stuff.

Peter Gleick, a freshwater expert, is the author of Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water(video discussion of book) 11/11. (see book below)

Bag It documentary on plastic.

Penn and Teller's humorous take on the subject of bottled water.

Mike Biddle TEDtalk: Discarded plastic, too often, ends up buried or burned, not recycled (it's just too complicated). But Biddle has found a way to close the loop.

Van Jones on Environmental Justice aspects of plastic. (video) 5/11.

Fun mockumentary on the plastic bag. alt link

Are mushrooms the new plastic? (TEDtalk video)

Artist Dianna Cohen shares some tough truths about plastic pollution in the ocean and in our lives. TEDtalk video.

Tapped, a new documentary about the bottled water industry from director Stephanie Soechtig and the producers of Who Killed the Electric Car?, is a pretty damning look at how consumers have been tricked into spending too much money on water packaged in plastic and quite often not as clean as what's available from the faucet.trailer

Where is Away? is a 4 min. film made by a local surfer. Also shown at SC Film Festival Plastic Island. Richard Sowa tied together over 120,000 plastic bottles and built himself a floating island, featuring a garden with a pond and a two-story house.

Tom Szaky visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book "Revolution in a Bottle: How TerraCycle is Redefining Green Business."Green@Google series. (video)

Great Pacific Garbage Patch/Gyre

Pacific Gyre filled with plastic. PBS news segment featuring UCSC folk.

Synthetic Sea Preview from Algalita Foundation on plastic gyre. Capt. Charles Moore of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation first discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch -- an endless floating waste of plastic trash. New CNN video segment7/16 update audio. Google talk video.

Audio

Boat Made of Plastic Bottles to Sail the Pacific. How do you raise awareness about plastic debris floating in the Pacific? You sail a boat