Plastic China (2017)

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Documentary of the sick and sad hijinx of the plastic waste recycling business in a family run processor in China.

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Really good, thought provoking and tragic comment on society, recycling, education, wealth, globalism, income disparity, drinking, automobile culture, parenting, and plastic.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I mean, this was really good. Still thinking about it. China makes all this plastic shit, sends it out to the world, and it returns from all over the world in tatters for these poor people to sort out and turn back into plastic for more shit. It cannot possibly stop.

There's this underlying drama of the kids who live and work at the factory, whether they should go to school or can even afford to, whose entire understanding of the world is based on absorbing it through its detrius.