Raven’s Zero Waste Team has partnered with the Yukon Film Society to host a showing of the documentary Plastic People: The Hidden Crisis of Microplastics:

“The ground-breaking feature documentary Plastic People investigates our addiction to plastic and the growing threat of microplastics on human health. Almost every bit of plastic ever made breaks down into “microplastics.” These microscopic particles drift in the air, float in all bodies of water, and mix into the soil, becoming a permanent part of the environment.

Now, leading scientists are finding these particles in our bodies: organs, blood, brain tissue, and even the placentas of new mothers. What is the impact of these invisible invaders on our health? And can anything be done about it?

Acclaimed author and science journalist Ziya Tong takes a personal approach by visiting leading scientists around the world and undergoing experiments in her home, on her food, and her body while collaborating with award-winning director Ben Addelman (Discordia, Bombay Calling, Nollywood Babylon, Kivalina v. Exxon) in an urgent call to action for all of us to rethink our relationship with plastic.”

Join us after the film for a Q&A panel of local plastic experts, Sruthee Govindaraj, a scientist specializing in micro-plastic research who participated in a study on microplastics in the Yukon River, and Joie Quarton, who is on the board for Love2Thrift and will be talking about plastic in textiles.