In China, they recycle plastic, but throw away lives.
China is the leading importer of plastic waste from the West, but education is a luxury, dependent on factors like family income and geography. The savage inequalities of contemporary China are inescapably evident in the lives of the workers at a Shandong recycling plant, whose routines and travails are captured in Wang Jiu-liang’s documentary “Plastic China,” screening at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.
The hollow words of Chairman Mao constantly echo throughout the film.
