What is The Plastic Project Film?
It started as one photographer, Tim Nunn, documenting the environment as he went to some of the remotest coastlines on Earth. Then he realised that surf photographers had accidentally documented the rise in plastic pollution for three decades.
The film is a document of this, every coastline, remote and populated documented, to form a unique timeline of man's influence on the ocean, and a result which will show the world that this is not a new problem, we've just woken up a decade too late.
The Timeline
We have built an image timeline from the mid nineties to 2018 in France, Bali, India, Iceland, Scotland, Ireland and South Africa
2018
2006
1998
Words From The Road
Rumblings from a polluted planet
Help Us This Year
Each year we set a budget for The Plastic Project, our sole aim each year is to be able to build our image, film and story resource so that any school or college on the planet can access it. Over the last year I have manually distributed all images and dealt with all requests manually. […]
Th Plastic Project x ACM
Excited to b talking in London next week with this group of legends, it’s going to be broadcast live on Facebook, sign up to tune in, I’ll post a link on the day as well. If you’d like to help us in general in our quest to raise funds for our educational project you can […]
TPP in May
It has been hectic, it’s been very quiet on here, but we’re coming back with a vengeance. We have just finished two short films, and a third will be finished in early June, all together, interspersed with me talking and showing some epic shots, this is the plastic project phase one. I am hitting the […]
The Ireland Adventure
As part of our ongoing campaign building a resource for schools in images, video and VR footage, we are running a set of workshops through the autumn and winter. They are designed for anyone to come along on, although they specifically focus on improving your photography, you can also come a long to surf with […]
Book release Vol 1,2 and 3
These books have been an absolute labour of love, we’ve had printers go out of business, re-desings, epic scores which just had to be shoed in, and books going missing in the post, but anything worth doing has problems and we are on the home stretch. Anyone who pledged early to help the plastic project […]
Behind the scenes – Norway Part One
There is nowhere on planet Earth as incredibly dramatic to be a surfer than Norway. The land rises out of the depths of the north atlantic like a citadel. Reefs hug sheltered bays, and wedgy sandy beaches act as nets for the floatsum and jetsum slowly pushed eastward on ocean currents. The following images didn’t […]
Surf and Environmental Photography Workshops
I’m totally revamping the workshops this year, and they are going to be pretty exciting. Those booked on workshops you’ll already see the changes, but we have three more workshops to release this year, two in France during the Quik Pro with some pretty epic behind the scenes opportunities and one up in Scotland. They […]
Shop Now Open
We’ve been looking at ways to raise the funds to continue our education programmes and take our film on the road. As well as having some amazing companies come on board to help sponsor the project we also now have a small print shop, you can buy individual prints and books HERE. We’ll be adding […]
Ian Battrick In Scotland
Travelling with Ian Battrick is how the plastic project all started, he has been an integral part of going to some of the wildest coastlines on the planet, so always good to share one of his self made edits. He sits pretty much alone in his van for months waiting for the right conditions, testing […]
What Can You Do?
Ideas to change the world
Every time you go to the beach, or just a walk in the country, set aside a couple of minutes to pick up some plastic, it’s the most effective and least destructive way to remove it from the environment.
2 Minute Beach Clean
Plastic right now is unavoidable, and in some cases essential, but once we’ve finished with it, make sure you recycle it, that way it can be re-used and stop new plastic entering the system.
Recycle
They are out, whether it be Surfdome who have eliminated in house plastic packaging, or Patagonia who are moving away from Neoprene wetsuits, if we support the alternatives to plastic/oil based products, they become cheaper and change the world.
Support Companies Leading The Change
You don’t have to make films or give lectures, just tell a friend who doesn’t go to the beach about how big the issue is becoming, you wont believe how many millions of people have no idea we even have a plastic problem.
Spread The Word
Takeaway coffee cups, straws, water bottles, sauce sachets and redundant packaging on food, there are alternatives to them all, so get organised and stop buying single use. Consumer power is the most important factor in changing plastic use.
Refuse Single Use Plastic
We all need to get into the environment more, surf, walk on beaches, swim, whatever it is if more of us enjoyed our wild spaces, more of us would love and look after it.
Get Outside More
