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Documentaries probably aren't going to turn someone's life around 180 degrees. An individual probably already has an awareness of, or a general sense about, the importance of an issue.

But docos can forge that individual's will or awareness into iron-clad conviction. And in that sense, they're a very powerful medium for change in our world.

Here are just a few that I've come across on the issue of plastic pollution. I'll post more as I become aware of them. Let me know if you've watched a good'un. This first one, a small article on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Catalyst program, really galvanized my will to live plastic-free and work however I can towards a less plastic world.

Chris Jordan's photos from Midway Atoll, which I saw online just a few months before that, did a similar thing for me. Those two combined were my wake-up call. What were yours?

Marine life and the plastic issue generally

ABC's science program, Catalyst, story. Watch on ABC here or Youtube:

Angela  Sun's Plastic Paradise

In the pipeline

Chris Jordan's Midway: A Message from the Gyre

Plastic Oceans (production team info here).



The Issue Generally

Werner Boote's Plastic Planet (website in German; and beware the industry website set up to try to lure you, with a similar URL)

Garbage and Recycling

Candida Brady's Trashed

Heather Gordon's Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage (Heather made this doco then expanded it into the book)

Plastic Bottles

A Great intro here from the Story of Stuff

Stephanie Soechtig and Jason Lindsey's Tapped

Urs Schnell's Bottled Life

Plastic Bags

Susan Beraza's Bag It

Living Plastic Free

Taina Uitto's From the Waste Up (coming soon)


From the Waste Up - Life Without Plastic from Taina Uitto on Vimeo.

Grant Baldwin's The Clean Bin Project