The Story of Plastic (Animated Short)

The Story of Plastic (Animated Short) pulls back the curtain on the plastic pollution headlines, revealing the true causes and consequences of the global plastics crisis.
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CREDITS:
Narration by Tiza Mafira
Animation by Ruben DeLuna Creative
Written & produced by Brett Chamberlin, Michael O'Heaney, and Ruben DeLuna
Based on The Story of Plastic documentary, directed and produced by Deia Schlosberg

[@StoryofStuff]

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[@HelpingOurPlanet]

RECYCLING, REDUCING, and REUSING are all wonderful environmental actions. However, we so often forget about the most important of the "R-Words." That is to REFUSE! If we all REFUSE to buy items made from plastic, the fossil fuel industry and their buddies at the petrochemical plants, will begin to lose their political and economic power.

[@isuru6114]

Man-made plastic is suffered by poor animals, this isn't fair at all. SINGLE USE ITEMS should be aligel around the world 🌎😢

[@auni2955]

the story of stuff changed my life.

[@KbB-kz9qp]

There is hardly any plastic gets recycled., and human behavior is not reliable enough in any case.

[@ChupacabraRex]

It's cuz, let us be honest, plastic is a ridiculously versatile product's, especially for containing things like liquids. Not to mention plastic includes everything pfrom PVC to styrofoam. Fully replacing plastic will probably nto happen, but the best way to not contribute is to re-use things, like using washable dishes and bottles and all that stuff.Recycling is mostly useless with plastic, I don't know about other countries but in Mexico it all ends up in landfills anyway. Even other more"developed"countries only reclycle a fraction of it due to polymer degradation. This will not stop, may God give mercy to us.

[@Mercever_]

This is definitely life changing but good luck now that Chevrons been overturned. Ugh.

[@yotsubai]

I agree with your idea, but plastics impact the life of every person every day and everywhere. Without plastics, food waste would increase. Without plastics, fuel costs would increase due to the heavier vehicles. Without plastics, medical care would be very difficult if not impossible. We would have to think of another solution to stop pollution and trash being spread everywhere-

[@rajeshaggarwalfrsa1252]

Every Company that makes Plastic Products should be FORCED to deal with their Plastic Waste that they have created and they should spend their money to clean up the Oceans as they have PROFITED from the sales of those products.... One Love, Rajesh Semrete Selassie Aggarwal FRSA

[@keithsaldanha7828]

I got asthma bc I plastic

[@SrTexasBlood]

Ive always wanted to recycle to help the environment but it's just way to much where I live and it would lmt be worth it anyway. So I'ma keep on just burning my garbage 😭

[@suevrba3833]

I am sickened every time I have to throw away more plastic. It is in everything we buy, even when we try hard to avoid it. The Story of Stuff does a great job of explaining the situation we are in. Thank you for making these documentaries!

[@Hubcool367]

Very nice ! I've used the bathtub / broken faucet analogy for years to describe this problem (and honestly, 99% of societal problems, you can't end things like climate change, homelessness and hunger until you finally close the open "pipelines" leading to them) and people just don't get it, they will act as if you're just not spooning the water out quick enough.. Hopefully this can help some people to see past false solutions and that systemic problems REQUIRE systemic changes.

[@nephilimslayer73]

Dear Story of Stuff.

[@Video7Rose]

I've been railing against plastic for nearly 55 years, since before the first Earth Day, and every year I could see more things being replaced by plastic. When glass mayonnaise jars were changed to plastic, I was outraged. When car parts that used to be steel were replaced by plastic, I was outraged. When I first heard of the great Pacific garbage patch, I was outraged! When I heard about the turtle with the plastic straw stuck in his nose, I was outraged! Now we're finding that plastic micro-particles are everywhere, including the North and South poles, the bellies of fish and birds, and even our own bodies, and I am outraged!! The petro-chemical industries don't care what their toxic substances are doing to us, and it's long past time to stop them! I've signed the petitions, I've written to my representatives. Outrage isn't enough! We have to stop producing plastics, and go back to the ways we made things before this scourge was unleashed on the world!

[@mariasun1789]

What a beautiful presentation. Thank you to everyone who participated in creation of this video.

[@mikeryan2100]

It's so refreshing to see an argument that is so well-constructed and by the people who need to be heard the most. Kudos, and thank you for being on this planet with me!

[@jenniferlynch6671]

Very well done. Thank you. Let's share this great film far and wide and ask everyone to say no to plastic and to support non-plastic packaging and products.

[@greenartlabs]

YES! I will share this widely. Thank you for this Earth Day gift!

[@kiaanee]

thank you for your on going efforts to spread the message 💚