Fixing Marine Plastic Pollution: video worksheets, differentiated.

Please ensure you can access the video before you get this resource. A detailed and ultimately somewhat uplifting survey of marine plastic pollution — its sources, scale, destinations, and possible solutions. The film shows how research can lead to possible solutions. Germany’s first-ever river-borne litter collector. Polypropylene nets replaced with Mater-Bi, sisal, or hemp-based materials – pros and cons, and potential scale and limits; a startup company recycling wetsuits; biomimetic washing-machine filters.

Fnd the film by searching YouTube’s DW Documentary channel for “Can innovative projects turn the tide on plastic litter in our seas? | DW Documentary."

14 questions for the 28-min film. Differentiated! Both versions look very similar, but “B” version has subtle clues. Excellent subtitles: scripted, not auto-generated. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc & .pdf for all files. Link to film on all sheets.