Direction: Teresa Paoli
Production: RAI
Country: Italy
Year: 2023
Genre: Documentary
Broadcast channel: Rai 3
Duration: 48’
SYNOPSIS
“There is only one ecosystem. So if you contaminate one part of the world, it will definitely affect us. If we send our waste to another country, we think we’re only contaminating a distant farmland, but the agricultural product will be exported, it will be eaten, and the plastic will go back into our bloodstream. It’s kind of a trap. And it’s an endless circle.”
An incredible trip to Turkey reveals how the Western world, the whole European Union, not excluding Italy, is flooding the most fragile parts of the earth with plastic waste, oblivious to devastating environmental pollution that we will all pay for. And how this devastation stems from the overproduction of disposable plastic on the planet, set to triple in the coming decades, and the inability to recycle it all.
