Materials: Living with Plastic by Design Insider

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Plastic is a huge problem. final.

But…. it is also an amazing material at the same time helping us to create amazing products, being the sole solution to most human technologies.

We have seen the devastating affects plastic is having on our oceans and wildlife through countless documentaries. With the BBC’s Blue Planet II really hitting home for a lot of people how much this plastic problem is affecting the whole world. This has led to a lot of change with governments and corporations in the UK deciding to take action through slowly banning some of the biggest enemy’s of the plastic world with the 5 pence charge on single use plastic bags and the planned ban of plastic straws and wet wipes

In the short documentary MATERIALS: LIVING WITH PLASTIC through which Design Insider wanted to explore how design can help turn this plastic problem into a plastic solution…