A Plastic Ocean

I found this Documentary very Sickning and Distressing and that we continue to allow our wildlife to suffer as they do.

You'll find some commenters Dismissing this documentary as garbage, Unscientific and Unrealistic,... How Neive and Unworldly this world really is is just has Shoocking to me and no wounder our Oceans are as they are.

When was the last time you visited the Ocean?

I know everytime I've visited the Ocean, there is Plastic everywhere and its commonsense to conclude that our wildlife will and Do mistakenly eat some of this plastic believing it to be food,...

Some of these animals are then caught and processed into the Human food chain.

We Need to Change no Matter you view on this Documentary!

This film addresses the problem of the accumulation of millions of tons of plastic in the world's oceans and its impact on the environment. In the film, the scenes clearly show that people do not value environment and water, which they themselves are made of eighty percent. This is sad, but nevertheless many people have been telling the public for years that it is time to take an action about this big issue. It is all started when a journalist Craig Leeson searched the endless waters for the elusive blue whale, and instead came across an enormous amount of plastic waste in what should have been a clean and pristine ocean which made him think deeply about this problem. Then, he pairs up with a professional diver Tanya Streeter who also assembled an impressive team of scientists and researchers around the world wo are as well concerned about plastic waste in oceans. Altogether they set off on an exciting and also educational journey in 20 different locations for a few years. They dived and explored deep oceans and came to a big conclusion: more and more plastic gets into oceans every year which is a serious threat for not only us, but for our planet too. Along these conclusions, there is an urge for people to at least think about the outcomes of throwing plastic into the water.

Plastic is the most common form of persistent marine litter and is one of the most serious problems facing marine ecosystems. Although it's difficult to measure, but about 8 million metric tons of plastic are added to our oceans each year. From the film's storyline, I understood that plastic is responsible for harming marine life, public health, and the economy on a global level. Unlike some other types of waste, plastic does not completely decompose, therefore, it will remain in the ocean for centuries. Plastic pollution also indefinitely leads to environmental hazards such as transfer of non-native species, habitat damage, and ingestion. In addition, marine debris is an economic mess that detracts from the beauty of natural coastal environments as Graig explored and showed ugly, littered coastal lands and plastic floating everywhere in the water.

As ocean plastic pollution continues to rise and will get worse, unless we take action. Plastic is in our waterways which threat the water quality and marine food sources. Microplastic enters the food chain and threats our health. It seems to me that people not only don't care about beautiful marine life full of fishes, whales, dolphins, etc., but their health too! This was a wonderful film, full of examples indicating me to start taking an action today which includes using less plastic stuff as possible, recycle, and participate/volunteer in cleanups.

We through we knew the solution to the single-use plastic items?Wrong.

We thought we have a lot more time and spaces to deal with plastic products?Wrong.

We though maybe it is only a few turtles, seabirds that are affected so far by the plastic?Wrong.

This is a film that change your perspectives of where, when and how we human being have left to deal with the worst invention of 20th century-plastic.

Heart-breaking facts, life-devoting scientists, passionate environmental fighters, There is still HOPE.

Watch this ENTIRE film, don't just skip the title, and say, I already knew....

Craig Leeson has done an amazing job and I wish this film can be added to all classroom in U.S , China, Philippine, U.K, .....

This film is an eye-opening education for all the world to see! A global disaster has begun and this amazing documentary brings awareness and solutions to save this planet and our most valuable resource, the oceans. Please sit for 90-minutes and learn about this very important issue, and find ways that you can be part of the solution, instead of part of the problem.

This film is so anxious to blame the US with its net non recycled production of all plastic slightly higher than Europe that it fails to even mention once that the types of plastics that are believed by the science to be the biggest contributors are in fact sourced form Asia and Europe at much higher rate per capita. It also when needed for its narrative switches between consumption and production, as if Europe's higher consumption than production makes it more benign. kind of reminds me of "Inconvenient Truth" and its manipulation of data, making the US the leading contributor to carbon output when not mention hat because of the huge efficiencies of the US, the US is producing more goods and food with less carbon per ton grown than Asia, Africa or Europe. The reason for the low acceptance of the science on global warming is an effect of the obscene level of manipulation of figures on production and consumption to resulting production, that allows the US to be blamed, and using this to rationalize subjecting the US to super-national redistribution of money and wealth. The science on the problem is real, the science on the solutions is flat earth junk science and statistical manipulation. Productivity in its ratio to carbon and plastic use matters.

the makers of this film would have been much better off in science communications if they had stuck to the science, instead of promulgating poltical diatribes that do not stand scrutiny of some basic logical controls