A PLASTIC OCEAN

Showings

Main Theater Sun, Apr 22, 2018 5:00 PM
INFORMATION
Rating:Unrated
Run Time:1h 42min
Release Year:2016
Genre:Documentary
Category:Special Screenings
CAST/CREW
Cast:David Attenborough
Syliva Earle
Craig Leeson
Barack Obama
Tanya Streeter
Director:Craig Leeson

Description

If it was happening in one gyre, they suspected it was happening in all of them. But the filmmakers needed experts to prove it. Scientists were brought in at each stage to analyze the findings from one part of the story to add their data to the overall report on the five gyres. In the center of the Pacific Ocean gyre our researchers found more plastic than plankton. A Plastic Ocean documents the newest science, proving how plastics, once they enter the oceans, break up into small particulates that enter the food chain where they attract toxins like a magnet. These toxins are stored in seafood’s fatty tissues, and eventually consumed by us.