Plastic People: 2. Plastics and Pollution

Ben Addelman and Ziya Tong’s Plastic People is an exposé of the disastrous consequences of plastic pollution . The development of plastic allowed an unprecedented level of material abundance, health and cleanliness alongside 'unlimited capitalist consumption' (Susan Freinkel*). Plastic, created from “molecules never before seen under the sun,” now pollutes the sea, causing the Great Garbage Patch , filling bird carcasses and infiltrating our bloodstream .   With over   1.5 billion plastic...