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| Image Credit: A Plastic Ocean Film |
A Plastic Ocean (99 min.)
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.
Introduced by Nancy Knowlton, Sant Chair for Marine Science at the National Museum of Natural History, with opening remarks by Cathy Novelli, Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment, U.S. Department of State, and Dr. Sylvia Earle, National Geographic Society Explorer-in-Residence and oceanographer. Followed by a discussion with Odile Madden, plastics expert and materials scientist at the Smithsonian's Museum Conservation Institute and Julie Andersen, film representative.