A Plastic Ocean: a film review
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Preparation
A Plastic Ocean
A Plastic Ocean is a film to make you think. Think, and then act. We need to take action on our dependence on plastic. We've been producing plastic in huge quantities since the 1940s. Drink bottles, shopping bags, toiletries and even clothes are made with plastic. 1) _____. 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 environment. Spoiler alert: the impact is devastating.
The film begins as a journey to film the largest animal on the planet, the blue whale. But during the journey the filmmakers (journalist Craig Leeson and environmental activist Tanya Streeter) make the shocking discovery of a huge, thick layer of plastic floating in the middle of the Indian Ocean. 2) _____. In total, they visited 20 locations around the world during the four years it took them to make the film. The documentary premiered in 2016, and is now on streaming services such as Netflix.
It's very clear that a lot of research went into the film. There are beautiful shots of the seas and marine life. 3) _____. 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 painfully obvious.
4) _____. 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 solutions. These include avoiding plastic containers and 'single-use' plastic products as much as possible. Reuse your plastic bags and recycle as much as you can. The filmmakers also stress the need for governments to work more on recycling programmes, and look at how technology is developing that can convert plastic into fuel.
We make a staggering amount of plastic. In terms of plastic bags alone, we use five hundred billion worldwide annually. Over 300 million tons of plastic are produced every year, and at least 8 million of those are dumped into the oceans. 5) _____. Once you've seen A Plastic Ocean, you'll realise the time is now and we all have a role to play.
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After reading A Plastic Ocean, I learned that plastic pollution is becoming a serious problem for marine life and the environment. Many sea animals are harmed because of plastic waste in the ocean. The documentary also shows that everyone can help by reducing plastic use and recycling more. In my opinion, this film is meaningful because it teaches us to care more about nature and protect our oceans.
Hello everyone, I'm from Vietnam and through a paragraph about the plastic pollution that I have some view points about it. In Vietnam, the plastic pollution is a popular phenomenon and Vietnamese citizens aren't concious about not throwing the plastic rubbish into roads and the consequences are the plastic rubbish in Vietnam increasing fastly.
I think the Vietnamese goverment have to make somes solutions to help people raising awareness of the harmful effect of the plastic rubbish and reduce littering.
Thank you! the text is well made.
The task of the ocean pollution has been one of the main and important subjects that held meetings between countries, however a few ones had taken actions focusing on awareness the population, although it's a good solution but it's not enough to rescue the already polluted ocean as of now i suggest that a all the countries contribute with small share to invest in cleaning the ocean because it's a huge problem
This issue happens in all of the country in the world. I once saw a mount of plastic waste in the sea near my house even though we lived in a small region. Most of them are the household rubbish. So, it is really true that we all have a role to decrease the level of plastic waste in the ocean. The stakeholder is the one who have to think fast about the solution of the amount of plastic waste that have already polluted the sea. However, I think we have the most important role to prevent this issue happening in the future. The perspective of reuse and recycle should be build among us because it is the only preventive solution. We shouldn't be ignorant of the environmental issues because it will affect our life now or in the future. So, stop being careless because any thing we do now even a small one can create a big impact on the this issue.
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Hello Heinien,
Have you looked at our tips and help section? You can find some good advice there:
https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/english-levels/improve-your-english-level/five-tips-busy-learners-listening-speaking
https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/level/improve-your-english-level?page=0
Peter
The LearnEnglish Team
From this paragraph, I could rethink about the plastic solution. Nowadays we don’t think abou that so much because it doesn’t cause something to us, but if we see it in the long term, it is pretty dangerous in the future. We need to get the knowledge what it causes in the future and we must realize we need to fix it as soon as possible.