We all talk about the Stone Age, the Iron Age and the Bronze Age, but what era are we living in right now? People are starting to refer to us as the - far less romantic - Plastic Age. We make 288 million tonnes of plastic a year, and unlike paper, metal, glass or wood, it does not oxidise or biodegrade, instead it ends up in our oceans, making the ratio of plastic to plankton 100:1. The way to make use of The Great Pacific Garbage Patch? Bionic yarn. Co-designed by Pharrell, G-Star’s RAW for the Oceans collection is the world’s first denim line created from plastic that has been fished out of the big blue and recycled. Find out how we can pick 700,000 tonnes of plastic up off the sea floor in our documentary, made possible by G-Star, The Plastic Age. An ALLDAYEVERYDAY Production Directed by Jake Sumner Writers Jake Sumner and Zach Neumeyer Director of Photography Austin Cary Rhodes Producer Kate Cunningham Executive Producer Lucy Cooper Editor Zach Neumeyer Original Music & Sound Design Dražen Bošnjak at Q Department Colorist Jaime OBradovich at Company 3 Additional Photography by Ryan Dickie, Brett Jutkiewicz, Daniel Kanes, Sesse Lind, Prune Brenguier, Yusuke Hayamizu, Nobutaka Shirahama, Jake Sumner Sound Colin Alexander, Rob Bluemke, Tony Leonardo, John Reynolds, Diana Sagrista, Travis Sentell, Gary Stevenson, Jake Sumner Camera Assistants Sonny Brown, Lindsay Mann, AJ Wilhelm Unit Producers Michaela McKee, Cedric Troadec, Andrew Runkle, Andrea Pinto, Clémentine Duzer 2nd Unit Director Kate Cunningham Production Manager (LA) Noelia Estrada Production Coordinators Amy Crowdis, Julia Palermo, Sebastian Stein, Ty Demura Data Management Rob Bluemke, Brian Williamson Production Assistants David Bly, Mike Brady, Natalie Carpenter, Michelle Faeroe, Andrew Ilson, Tom Kogut, Vijayta Narang, Julia Palermo, Sylla Saint-Guily, Lyle Shanahan, Michael Smith, Deno Williams, Kelly Zimmerman Post Producers Tara Holmes, Jenna Gabriel Animation and Art Direction Lessa Millet Assistant Editors Andrew Taylor, Kete Bennis, Kyle Grandmaison Stock Footage Provided by Algalita Marine Research & Education Joel Sadler at Aerial Archival Lewis Teague Wright Interviews (in order of appearance) Dr Marcus Eriksen Pharrell Williams Dr Wallace J Nichols Anna Cummins Dr Mike Biddle Capt. Charles Moore Capt. Paul Watson Cyrill Gutsch Kahi Pacarro Megan Lamson Tim Coombs Tyson Toussant Shubhankar Ray i-D Global Head of Video Danielle Bennison-Brown Senior Video Commissioning Editor Jack Robinson Head of Branded Production Fiona Scott Head of Creative Development Bunny Kinney Project Manager Cat Crawford Associate Producer Declan Higgins Production Manager U.S. Eleanor Galloway Production Manager Tiwirayi Magwenzi Production Coordinator Tom Ivin Special Thanks Adrian Grenier, Keith Edmeir, Dave Ransome, Mollusk Surf Shop, K&M; Camera, Doug Woodring at Ocean Recovery Alliance, Lewis Teague Wright, Charlie Smith, Jeanne Gallagher, Kona Brewing Company, Tracy Williams of Tracy Williams Ltd., Arthur Huang, MINIWIZ, Jordan Howard, Eadoin Quinn at Sims Municipal Recycling, Piotr Lozak A Very Special Thanks To Parley for the Oceans Bionic Yarn G-Star RAW Follow i-D: YouTube http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-iD Twitter https://twitter.com/i_D Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/iDmagazineof... Tumblr: http://i-donline.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/id_magazine Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/i-d-online-1 More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos

• published: 15 Apr 2015
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