The Story of Plastic
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Description
The Story of Plastic by Deia Schlosberg looks at the plastic crisis from the point where oil and gas are pulled from the ground to the places where packaging ends up dumped, burned, or shipped away. It pushes past the familiar image of littered beaches to show how industry messaging and recycling promises helped make disposable plastic feel normal. Communities living near refineries, landfills, and waste sites give the issue its human weight, tying pollution to everyday health, livelihoods, and unequal exposure.
Director / Filmmaker
Deia Schlosberg
About the Director / Filmmaker
Deia Schlosberg, director and producer, works at the intersection of environmental justice, journalism, and documentary. Trained in earth science, visual communications, and science and natural history filmmaking, she has built a nonfiction practice spanning Backyard, How to Let Go of the World…, and Awake. In interviews and institutional bios, she frames her work as tool-making for social and environmental justice, grounded in heavily researched reporting.
Deia Schlosberg, director and producer, works at the intersection of environmental justice, journalism, and documentary. Trained in earth science, visual communications, and science and natural history filmmaking, she has built a nonfiction practice spanning Backyard, How to Let Go of the World…, and Awake. In interviews and institutional bios, she frames her work as tool-making for social and environmental justice, grounded in heavily researched reporting.
Topic
Detoxing, Chronic Illnesses
Who It’s Best For
People tracing plastic pollution back to production, lobbying, and the recycling narrative are the clearest fit here. It will also resonate with viewers who treat environmental harm as a systems problem, not a waste-sorting or lifestyle question.
Production Company / Studio
Pale Blue Dot Media
Approach
An exposé format drives the documentary, linking corporate history, petrochemical expansion, and waste colonialism into one causal timeline. Industry messaging is treated skeptically throughout, with activist testimony and investigative evidence used to indict systemic design rather than consumer behavior.
Duration
95 Minutes
Year
2019
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