Plastic Planet

The next Friday Eco Film at Sadhana Forest will be Plastic Planet, being screened August 19th at 7 p.m. as usual.

Documentary, 94 minutes, English, 2009 – Directed by: Werner Boote

Watch the trailer:

This informative documentary takes us on a journey around the globe – from the Moroccan Sahara to the middle of the Pacific Ocean, from a factory in China to the highest peaks of the Alps – to reveal the very real issues of our plastic problem. Interviews with the world’s foremost experts in biology, pharmacology, and genetics shed light on the perils of plastic to our environment and expose the truth of how plastic affects our bodies and the health of future generations.

If you’re lucky enough to understand German, here is even the full movie:

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