This is a cute animated version of what we learned about involving plastics and how it becomes microplastics that end up affect organisms in the ocean.
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I can picture this video being shown in front of a class as either an introduction or a closing to the topic; the animation’s cute and cheerful while depicting the harm done to sealife, and the comparison to confetti is a useful way of understanding some of the nature of microplastics. The video raises the question of whether our oceans will be flexible (“plastic”) enough to cope with the problem until we figure out how to deal with it, and that could be an interesting direction for further research — though it’s probably better to focus on solutions. Also mentioned are the pieces that sink (which are still somehow bothering me; if I remember correctly, there isn’t much known about them) and “biodegradable” plastics, which we learned “don’t really exist.” The information about their upcoming research towards the end reminded me of Semester at SEA video we watched; the sight of their ships working towards greater understandings and better solutions offers a sense of hope, that there’s still some time left and that we can clean the oceans.
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I can picture this video being shown in front of a class as either an introduction or a closing to the topic; the animation’s cute and cheerful while depicting the harm done to sealife, and the comparison to confetti is a useful way of understanding some of the nature of microplastics. The video raises the question of whether our oceans will be flexible (“plastic”) enough to cope with the problem until we figure out how to deal with it, and that could be an interesting direction for further research — though it’s probably better to focus on solutions. Also mentioned are the pieces that sink (which are still somehow bothering me; if I remember correctly, there isn’t much known about them) and “biodegradable” plastics, which we learned “don’t really exist.” The information about their upcoming research towards the end reminded me of Semester at SEA video we watched; the sight of their ships working towards greater understandings and better solutions offers a sense of hope, that there’s still some time left and that we can clean the oceans.