What's more, many of these same companies also fund a carefully orchestrated backlash against environmental education. The American Plastics Council bills the Busy, Busy Planet to educators and students as an instructional video about plastics and resource conservation. To us, it looks and sounds like an unabashed commercial. There is no apparent educational value to this video which features an off screen narrator talking to a teenage boy on a skateboard. The narrator compares a compact package of 1000 plastic grocery bags with two big stacks of paper bags.
Plastics are all right.
I think I'll start with my parents. The video tells kids that the more plastic packaging they use, the more resources they save. But it never suggests that using less plastic or other packaging might be the best way to protect the environment. Nor does it talk about the pollution caused by plastic manufacturing or the problems with landfill disposal. PVC production perpetuates widespread use of chlorine chemistry, the root cause of many of the most toxic synthetic chemicals.