Plastic Pollution: How Humans are Turning the World into Plastic

I am wildly unhappy with the results of the survey quoted at 6:25: "making a single-use plastic bag requires so little energy and produces far lower carbon dioxide emissions compared to a reusable cotton bag, that you need to use your cotton bag 7100 times before it would have a lower impact on the environment than the plastic bag."

Seriously?

That's kind of depressing.

The video actually does a great job presenting a very balanced view of plastics, presenting facts that show that just not using plastics isn't as easy as it looks at first blush.