Culture
For our third print issue Isabel Froemming sat down with Frederikke Magnussen and Siân Sutherland, founders of A Plastic Planet: a solution-based organisation on a mission to ‘turn off the plastic tap.’
Frederikke Magnussen and Siân Sutherland, founded of A Plastic Planet: a solution-based organisation on a mission to ‘turn off the plastic tap.’ For issue 003 we discussed everything from how COVID-19 shifted the conversation around climate change to how the founders’ relationships with fashion and film inform their mission.
It all began at a distinct moment when Sian and I were assisting on a film called, A Plastic Ocean. Filmed across seven years, this documentary and the journey it brought us upon shed light on the omnipresence of plastic. Capturing not only the prevalence of plastics in the ocean, the producers starkly depicted how our lives came to totally revolve around this material.
“In a world of options, fat-free, sugar-free, dairy-free… why can’t there be a plastic-free option in the supermarket?" – Frederikke Magnussen
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