Modern Marvels

Season 6, Episode 10

Episode Title: Plastics

Air Date: 1998-11-23

Overview:

Plastics are everywhere–the home, the workplace, the car, the human body, outer space, and most conspicuously, the garbage heap and landfill. Artificially created test-tube material, plastic can’t be returned to nature. Will we drown in a sea of plastic? Join us as we review this protean substance’s past and future.