Plastic Research/ Ideas

- Plastic is in disposable - almost all still on planet
- durability - good - functional/ bad - indesposable
-Blue wales can't tell the difference between krill and plastic - take up hundreds of gallons of water
= blocks digestive systems
- We chuck 38 billion bottles a year (2 million tonnes)
= this year each person will consume 300 pounds/ 36 kilos of single use plastic
- Plastic coats planet like a disease
- jires move in circular motions because of earths rotations - plastic enters and is pushed to the centre of the ocean
- estimated 5 trillion pieces of plastic in the ocean
- plastic smog = plastic broken into micro plastics - take up toxic chemicals from industry (stick)  - become like poisonous death pills
= Plastic breaks up not down - Micro beads from scrubs, toothpaste also in ocean
- Sinopec dropped sacks of plastic pellets into the ocean (thousands of sacks, with millions in each) in HK - Swallowed by fish- cant be consumed any longer (blocked throats)
- also swallowed by birds - pick out of ocean, take to nests to feed chicks - stomaches literally constructed of plastic = hundreds of pieces found in stomaches - found about 250 pieces in tiny chick
- also in turtles - produces gas - gives them buoyancy - cant dive properly  = Can't dive/ die
- one trillion plastic bags produced per year - 12 min use time - 2 mill a min (?)
- more dolphins and turtles turning up dead
- micro plastics - krill - small fish - big fish - dolphins (in blubber)
- Uneducated people  burning plastic - toxic smoke (cancerous toxins)
- Nice Quote: 'The world of plastics is present everywhere, this presence is but a premonition of a future world, our children will see a bit of that world and our grandchildren will not see the end of it'.
- People are living on mountains of plastic - like a landfill - small islands don't have anywhere to dump their plastic waste - end up living on top of it - in disposable - covers whole stretches of land
- islands are literally choked and covered with own plastic waste
- BPA (fake oestrogen) is in most plastic
- Potential Solutions:
- Aim to make plastic a currency - people can collect - payed to recycle it - processed into pellets sold back to companies/ Developed machine - end of life plastic to diesel
(Attenbrough:)
- 8 mill tonnes per year dumped in oceans
- Albatros - eat/ get wings caught - toothpicks rupture stomaches, whole plastic bags
- 1 Million pieces of plastic square mile
- enough nets laid to wrap around the world twice
- rising ocean temps - rising coral bleaching - 213 reefs suffered last couple years
IDEAS:
- morphed plastic bag jelly fish - jellyfish that says Sainsburys on it - big fish trying to eat it
- World with some sort of plastic disease spreading over it ( plastic bad spreading like disease - brand name - slowly covering planet/ blocking out sun
- Play on the globe being made out of plastic - morph with obvious sphere plastic object - hinged thing opening - plastic objects/ toothbrushes falling out 
- Globe being literally choked by something made of plastic - plastic bag over head - like being hanged, something wrapped around it - somehow visually suffocated 
- people living on islands of plastic - globe - islands consisting of landfill 
- Every toothbrush still existing - make islands out of them - can't tell unless you look close
- Plastic as a literal weapon to fish: 
- Animal, shark - plastic bag over head - like sack before hanging - Somehow morph imagery with that of capital punishment - think about how I can turn mundane plastic objects into weapons 
= A toothbrush - sword/ gun, (Almost every toothbrush still exists) fish inhaling a plastic sheet 
- Bird or fish - whole internal digestive system is made up of plastic objects - lighter, toothbrush, cup, bag etc.
- fish can't tell the difference between prey and plastic (Prey or Plastic?) - ocean of animals with brand names on them 
- Something to do with a bottle nose dolphin - with a bottle on its nose suffocating it - Look out for the indigenous bottle nose dolphin - natural wonders 
- some sort of play on fish in a bottle, bottle in a fish
- Fish have plastic homes - create scene from plastic objects - too complex? - Animal - rocks or coral made of plastic - Sarcastic slogan - 100% natural 
- Plastic breaks up not down - literal rep

Toothbrush Research :
- All toothbrushes since 1938 still exist
- 4.7 Billion go to landfill per year
- 2nd biggest plastic waste (?)