“Plastic People” offers a fascinating history of plastic, showing us how the stuff gradually took over.

[Plastic People's] findings around the invasive nature of plastics are important to establish. Especially since the titular product is much harder to get out of one’s system than ad slogans.

As a science-focused documentary, this film isn’t always riveting, but it does address a very serious area of concern and do so in a thorough and clearly researched manner.

There is an almost hopeless, too-late feel to the scope of the ocean of plastic bits we inhale and absorb (let alone what’s absorbed by our fellow creatures). At its end, Plastic People tries to strike an optimistic note, but cheering up is a tall order.