Plastic has infested everything from our blood to our oceans, according to mildly enviropocalyptic documentary Plastic Planet, which bows stateside Friday at New York's Cinema Village.
Set to the pulsing beat of The Orb and trekking across 14 countries, director Werner Boote's 2009 Austrian documentary is a fair-minded but frightening exposé of an industry that generates hundreds of billions of dollars annually on the backs of convenient products that populate every corner of human existence.
Although Boote comes off as a kindler, gentler Michael Moore, he's no noob: His grandfather helped manufacture the "miracle substance" plastic long before bisphenol A migrated into our bodies and the Great Pacific Garbage Patch befouled our seas.
Stuffed with scientists, government officials, consumers and camera-shy manufacturers, Plastic Planet is a sobering but accessible call to action.
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