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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Addicted to plastic [videorecording] / [presented by] Cryptic Moth Productions ; produced & directed by Ian Connacher.

Edition:

Widescreen format.

Publisher, Date:

Oley, PA : Bullfrog Films, c2008.

Description:

1 videodisc (85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Documentary encompasses three years of filming in 12 countries on five continents as it details plastic's path over the last 100 years and the effects it has had on the environment. Discusses solutions to issues such as recycling, toxicity, and biodegradability as well as marine debris.

Subjects:

Plastic scrap -- Environmental aspects.

Plastics -- Environmental aspects.

Documentary films.

Environmental films.

Nonfiction films.

Films for hard of hearing people

Other Author:

Connacher, Ian.

Reichman, Gad.

Rollins, Kevin.

Iannece, Martyn.

Cryptic Moth Productions.

Bullfrog Films.

Other Title:

Subtitle on container: Rise and demise of a modern miracle.

Notes:

Copyright date on credit frame: 2007; copyright date on disc: 2008.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 2007.

Special features: 53 min. version of the film; links to web resources (PDF file; requires computer with DVD-ROM drive, Adobe Reader software, and Internet access).

Photographed by Ian Connacher, Gad Reichman ; edited by Martyn Iannece, Gad Reichman, Kevin Rollins.

Host, Ian Connacher.

DVD ; NTSC, region 1.

In English.

Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing.

Contents:

Plastic ocean -- The age of plastic -- Plastic food chain -- Bird dissection & bioaccumulation -- Recycle this! -- Denmark's example -- TieTek & Agri-Plas -- Patagonia & Interface -- UniqEco Designs -- Third world plastic -- E-waste & plastic bags -- Poison plastic -- Scientific research -- Plastic bottles & antimony -- Farming plastics -- A call to action -- Leading question.

ISBN:

1594587957

9781594587955

Other Number:

262511012

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

352434

# Local items in:

0

# System items in:

0

Call Number:

DVD 363.7288 Addicted

Medium:

[videorecording]