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A Plastic Ocean a film to make you think. Think, and then act. We need to on plastic. We've been plastic in huge quantities since the 1940s. We live in a world full of plastic, and only a small part is . What happens to all the rest? This is the question the film A Plastic Ocean answers. It is a documentary that looks at the impact that plastic waste has on the .
The film begins as a journey to film the largest animal on the planet, the blue whale. But during the journey the filmmakers make the discovery of a huge, layer (层) of plastic floating in the middle of the Indian Ocean. This causes them to travel around the world to look at other areas that have been . We see how marine species are being killed by all the plastic we are dumping in the ocean. The message about our use of plastic is obvious.
But the film doesn't only present the side. In the second half, the filmmakers look at what we can do to reverse the tide of plastic flowing around the world. They present short-term and long-term . These include avoiding plastic containers and * single-use5 plastic products as much as possible.
