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For better and for worse, no ecosystem or segment of human activity has escaped the shrink-wrapped grasp of plastic. ADDICTED TO PLASTIC is a global journey to investigate what we really know about the material of a thousand uses and why there's so darn much of it. On the way we discover a toxic legacy, and the men and women dedicated to cleaning it up.
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"A great, well-made film for all ages, that should help people think twice about their plastic habit" -- Greenmuze.com
"Addicted to Plastic was a wake-up call...a sort of eco-horror movie" -- Dr. James M. Cervino, Assistant Professor, Biology and Health Sciences
"Riveting, disturbing, and even sometimes comforting. Everyone should see this important film." -- Reah Janise Kauffman, Vice President, Earth Policy Institute
"Slick, hard-hitting, and even witty" -- J.H. Stape, ReviewVancouver.org
"Addicted to Plastic was a wake-up call...a sort of eco-horror movie" -- Dr. James M. Cervino, Assistant Professor, Biology and Health Sciences
"Riveting, disturbing, and even sometimes comforting. Everyone should see this important film." -- Reah Janise Kauffman, Vice President, Earth Policy Institute
"Slick, hard-hitting, and even witty" -- J.H. Stape, ReviewVancouver.org
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I want so much to like this documentary because it is such an important issue. And the film maker goes to many of the right places, talks to some good people, but the whole thing is just amateur hour in dixie. It is just poorly done. Bad jokes, weak sound bites from those being interviewed, and prolonged sections of really meaningless footage with music that can't carry the scene. Why are we watching kids in lego land for about sixty seconds without any dialogue, for example? There is so much to say about the issue of plastic overuse and contamination that this film should be almost impossible to edit down to two hours, but instead it seems that a significant amount of the film is filler. A real disappointment, and I wish someone who knows what they are doing would remake this film. Nice effort, but this one is a miss.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By Jo Blo
To begin with if someone (like me) don't really like stoner movies like the "Cheech and Chong" serie then he should skip this documentary and watch anything else who is diffused on usually serious TV channels like Discovery. If someone want to see an ugly 65-years old so-called "Environment specialist" trying to refrain his laughter while he say that he personally don't spend times on beaches because there's too much plastic bottles scattered everywhere then watch this. At the beginning the presentation say "Two guy, 160 000 KM, 300 hours of interviews, 10 000 photographs, 1000 water bottles, 200 hotel rooms, 9 factories, 6 landfills, one plastic road trip"... LOL... There's even a "smoke artist" named Lee Maund credited at the end among other funny credits... In any case I'm not advising to not watch it, but the fact that they sell it on the cover as a serious documentary really leave me with an impression of being screwed even if I paid only 1.99$ for the DVD...
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A more plastic world, a less plastic world
Dec 26 2010
By E. Hernandez
- Published on Amazon.com
ADDICTED TO PLASTIC (2007-2008) is one of the most frightening, riveting and excellent documentaries I've ever seen. While at certain moments it is humorous, and at other moments I get a bit tired of the music-video phenomenon complete with whiny 'college station' music, this is a must-see.
Its premises as a documentary are complete and I only wish there had been more fact and statistics: yet the lack thereof is one of the points of this documentary. Young filmmaker Ian Connacher, a Toronto native, set out to discover the truth behind something that had mystified him: recycling. He moved on to seek the truth about non-biodegradable plastics, their manufacture and their ultimate disposal.
What he found absolutely reeks. This is a collection of facts from a world we should all get to know - and this film should be shown in schools planet-wide. The toxins involved in making plastic malleable could be THE cause of cancer in the world today. Animals are eating plastic waste, thinking it's food, and then guess where the plastic-toxins are going?
You got it: higher up the food chain. Hence our relatives dropping like flies from cancer and other unspeakables. Connacher travels around the world seeking answers, meeting with environmentalist scientists (few of whom would admit they were environmentalists), innovators, and one rep from the plastics corporation whom, as always, was full of double-talk.
Connacher found places of hope - such as Kenya and India - where the plastic refuse is being recycled in ingenious, useful and nondestructive ways. He crossed paths with great scientists who are engineering all-natural plastics made from vegetables (one such product is brand-named "PLANTIC" and made from soy). An enthusiastic developer in Australia demonstrated the nature of his 21st century plastic product by eating it. The exact same thing was done spontaneously by an American inventor (though he admitted it was too hard to chew it).
About two decades ago I wrote a paper about the unfairness and stupidity of 'recycling' if we didn't do it exactly right. I also stated back then that we HAD to find an alternative base product from which to manufacture "a new plastic". The need to get away from petrol (fossil fuels, etc.) is so great that we may all go the way of Atlantis very soon. What moved me to write the paper was a great plastics alternative I'd heard of: ground nut-shells. That market - useful for making coffins if nothing else - came to nothing. Sad.
This film will teach you all the basics you need to pick your field of improvement: plastic manufacture, waste disposal, recycling-such-as-it-is, rescuing the planet and salvaging plastic. Someone has to, we're stuck with it, and I myself am getting tired of ingesting it. With more than seven dead in my family of cancer - and several siblings dealing with it right now - I am furious about the cancer-plastic link this documentary has shown me.
At the same time, this film will show you that really no one is to blame for the original problem. My physicians asked the same old question every time we suffered a new diagnosis: "Did you live anywhere toxic, or get exposed?" - like we are supposed to know!! This documentary will teach you, so that future families will not fade terribly like my family has ... and will continue to do.
Consumers are not at fault. Manufacturers are nasty pieces of work, but they aren't at fault either. If you could magically make plastic disappear from your life, you'd have only wood and metal left but at least the plastic would be gone or recycled. New plastics, truly non-toxic and biodegradable, would be the work-horse materiel. What do you expect plastic manufacturers to do? Now's the time, speak up!
Watch this - you may be the future plastics genius who arrives at THE solution.
Hopefully, Amazon will again make this available. Isn't it odd how some of these movies are vanishing right out from under us? Sellers are getting around $55 for a used copy of this DVD. Maybe they're out working on either a wood, pulp or PLANTIC case for this DVD!
Its premises as a documentary are complete and I only wish there had been more fact and statistics: yet the lack thereof is one of the points of this documentary. Young filmmaker Ian Connacher, a Toronto native, set out to discover the truth behind something that had mystified him: recycling. He moved on to seek the truth about non-biodegradable plastics, their manufacture and their ultimate disposal.
What he found absolutely reeks. This is a collection of facts from a world we should all get to know - and this film should be shown in schools planet-wide. The toxins involved in making plastic malleable could be THE cause of cancer in the world today. Animals are eating plastic waste, thinking it's food, and then guess where the plastic-toxins are going?
You got it: higher up the food chain. Hence our relatives dropping like flies from cancer and other unspeakables. Connacher travels around the world seeking answers, meeting with environmentalist scientists (few of whom would admit they were environmentalists), innovators, and one rep from the plastics corporation whom, as always, was full of double-talk.
Connacher found places of hope - such as Kenya and India - where the plastic refuse is being recycled in ingenious, useful and nondestructive ways. He crossed paths with great scientists who are engineering all-natural plastics made from vegetables (one such product is brand-named "PLANTIC" and made from soy). An enthusiastic developer in Australia demonstrated the nature of his 21st century plastic product by eating it. The exact same thing was done spontaneously by an American inventor (though he admitted it was too hard to chew it).
About two decades ago I wrote a paper about the unfairness and stupidity of 'recycling' if we didn't do it exactly right. I also stated back then that we HAD to find an alternative base product from which to manufacture "a new plastic". The need to get away from petrol (fossil fuels, etc.) is so great that we may all go the way of Atlantis very soon. What moved me to write the paper was a great plastics alternative I'd heard of: ground nut-shells. That market - useful for making coffins if nothing else - came to nothing. Sad.
This film will teach you all the basics you need to pick your field of improvement: plastic manufacture, waste disposal, recycling-such-as-it-is, rescuing the planet and salvaging plastic. Someone has to, we're stuck with it, and I myself am getting tired of ingesting it. With more than seven dead in my family of cancer - and several siblings dealing with it right now - I am furious about the cancer-plastic link this documentary has shown me.
At the same time, this film will show you that really no one is to blame for the original problem. My physicians asked the same old question every time we suffered a new diagnosis: "Did you live anywhere toxic, or get exposed?" - like we are supposed to know!! This documentary will teach you, so that future families will not fade terribly like my family has ... and will continue to do.
Consumers are not at fault. Manufacturers are nasty pieces of work, but they aren't at fault either. If you could magically make plastic disappear from your life, you'd have only wood and metal left but at least the plastic would be gone or recycled. New plastics, truly non-toxic and biodegradable, would be the work-horse materiel. What do you expect plastic manufacturers to do? Now's the time, speak up!
Watch this - you may be the future plastics genius who arrives at THE solution.
Hopefully, Amazon will again make this available. Isn't it odd how some of these movies are vanishing right out from under us? Sellers are getting around $55 for a used copy of this DVD. Maybe they're out working on either a wood, pulp or PLANTIC case for this DVD!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Buy IT!
Jun 15 2011
By Phil Carney
- Published on Amazon.com
Excellent, thought provoking film. We must take ownership of the problems we have created and this film offers an excellent analysis of the problem as well as encouraging solutions. Highly recommend!!
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Ask your local library to buy a copy
Aug 22 2010
By Manx Shearwater
- Published on Amazon.com
This is a great documentary on a subject that's been covered elsewhere but never as deeply as this.
Ask your local library to buy a copy so that more people can learn about this subject.
Ask your local library to buy a copy so that more people can learn about this subject.
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