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Apr. 23 2010 - 1:08 pm | 45 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments

Plastic Bags Will Choke The Earth

Plastic is getting hammered on YouTube, and that’s a good thing. Water bottles got nailed here. And if you want to watch the most cinematic, eloquent, mesmerizing case ever made about the problem of plastic bags, then just watch below (Werner Herzog, you were created for exactly this sort of film!).

The backstory to this remarkable vid is here.

And if you want to do something about plastic on the planet, my friends sailing across the Pacific on Plastiki (a boat made from 12,500 recycled plastic bottles) have some ideas for you.


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