Pollution Videos - The Documentary Network

One Plastic Beach

Documentary.net staff — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 12:35:02 +0000

Richard Lang and Judith Selby Lang have been collecting plastic debris off one beach in Northern California for over ten years. Each piece of plastic Richard and Judith pick up comes back to their house, where it gets cleaned, categorized and stored before being used for their art. The couple make sculptures, prints, jewelry and installations with the plastic they find washed up, raising a deeper concern with the problem of plastic pollution in our seas

Pricing Pollution

Documentary.net staff — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 13:59:52 +0000

Australia has unveiled one of the world's most ambitious schemes to tackle climate change. From July 2012, Australia's biggest polluting companies will pay $25 a tonne for their carbon emissions, increasing 2.5 per cent a year until moving to a market-set price in 2015. The plan will create the largest emissions trading scheme after the European Union's. Australia generates more carbon pollution per head than any other developed country. But the government faces a furious backlash over the scheme, which a large proportion of the population opposes.

China’s Dirty Secrets

Documentary.net staff — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 15:46:12 +0000

China's juggernaut economy is the envy of the world, but at what cost to the country's people and environment?China's factories provide low cost products such as computers and cars to the rest of the world. But critics claim such economic progress takes a heavy toll, polluting the country's air, land and rivers. Even though China ordered more than 2,000 factories to be shut down last August due to pollution, inefficiency or unsafe working conditions, the country remains a major polluter. Pollution from factories has poisoned potable water supplies and has even led to deaths among the surrounding populace.