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Single Use Planet

Single Use Planet

Narrated by Peter Coyote, Single-Use Planet features entertaining animation and musical interludes that help illustrate the connections between public health, plastics production, and industry influence on government policy.

Plastic is vital in so many ways to our modern way of life and well-being — but not all forms of it. In search of why more and more single-use plastic debris enters the ocean despite all efforts to recycle, Single-Use Planet goes upstream to where millions of tons of raw plastic are being made amidst the ruins of America’s bygone steel industry in Pennsylvania.

Further upstream, we see the economic and political realities that have boosted the new industry — realities reaching all the way to rural Louisiana where plans are laid to build the biggest plastic plant in the world. Can the powerful industry be persuaded to temper their production of single-use plastic? Our search leads to Washington D.C. — where a federal bill to regulate the industry remains stalled — and finally to France, where the prohibition of campaign donations by corporations may provide a key to the effective reduction of plastic pollution.

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Director: Steve Cowan
59 minutes

 

Coral Gardeners

Coral Gardeners

Follow a novel experiment in the Maldives to regrow coral reefs, which offer protection, food and income. “If we continue business as usual, 90 percent of the reef will be challenged and disappear by 2030,” says former President Mohamed Nasheed. “We are witnessing the death of a nation.”

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Director: Jon Bowermaster
21 minutes

 

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Date

Oct 13 2024
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Time

12:30 pm - 2:05 pm

Location

R/C Reading Movies 11 & IMAX - Theater 1
30 N 2nd St, Reading, PA 19601
Website
https://www.rctheatres.com/location/10927/Reading-Movies-11-and-IMAX