Plastic waste is suffocating the world’s oceans and poisoning wildlife and the food we eat. The ocean currents are driving it into massive accumulations – one, in the North Pacific, is known to be twice the size of Texas. There are already hundreds of million tonnes of plastic debris out there and every minute of every day we add more.
Plastic Oceans is a non profit organisation established for the purpose of producing and distributing a 90 minute high-end, HD documentary film, led by multi award winning former BBC wildlife film producers and cameramen, which will in turn:
Bring global awareness to the problem, encourage change in our attitude to plastic, and support continued development of solutions.
Provide a vessel for scientific research at the major oceans’ centres
Promote research and development into the appropriate technology to initiate a clean-up operation
Provide financial assistance to the scientific teams through the distribution of funds generated from the documentary.
Be a forceful tool to lobby government and non-government organization
This film is being anticipated as, “The Positive Conservation Story the World has been Waiting For.”
The film team will travel to several of the core problem areas to document the depth of the problem and the findings of the scientists.
We will also document the marine engineers’ conceptual designs and their first attempts to recapture the plastics in the seas - plastics that could provide an alternative fuel source for us. As the toxic plastic is removed from our oceans, everyone wins - and that includes marine wildlife.
Exciting new technology now provides a way to convert any plastic into raw diesel fuel – without using excessive energy in the process and in a virtually emission free way. Plastic waste can have a quantifiable value.