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WASHINGTON, DC — Hip Hop Caucus President and CEO, Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr. joins the upcoming documentary, The Plastic Detox, as a featured climate and environmental justice expert sounding the alarm about the dangers of microplastics in our everyday lives. The Plastic Detox will world premiere on Netflix on March 16.
The Plastic Detox is an eye-opening journey into the hidden dangers of plastic in our homes. It explains what microplastics and their chemicals are doing to our health and how we can take matters into our own hands.
Rev Yearwood joins a host of experts, scholars, and advocates, including Sharon Cayette Lavigne, Founder & Director of RISE St. James Louisiana, Jasmine A. McDonald, Ph.D., an epidemiologist and Associate Professor at Columbia University, and Dr. Shanna H. Swan, an environmentalist, award-winning scientist, and reproductive epidemiologist, to discuss both the personal and public dangers of plastics in our everyday lives. With health risks linked to rising rates of chronic illnesses like cancer, plastics aren’t just pollution: they are a global public health crisis. The Plastic Detox is the continuation of a conversation around that crisis and how we can work to detox plastics from our lives and our homes.
“Microplastics have been found virtually everywhere on this planet. And when we say everywhere, we mean it: from our oceans to our food sources and our bodies,” said Rev Yearwood. “From cancers to hormonal issues and more, these microscopic plastics are wreaking havoc on our health and environment. This documentary is a wake up call that seeks to explore the implications of this plastic epidemic and how we can take strides to remove them from our lives.”
About The Plastic Detox
When six couples embark on a plastic detox within their homes, it changes their families forever. This eye-opening documentary explains what microplastics and their chemicals are doing to our health and how we can take matters into our own hands. The Plastic Detox is an eye-opening journey into the hidden dangers of plastic in our homes.
From hormone disruption that’s fueling a worldwide fertility crisis, to growing rates of cancer, and early heart attack and stroke, this powerful documentary reveals the shocking science behind plastic’s impact on human life.
Produced by an Academy Award®-winning team, The Plastic Detox features leading scientists and personal stories of couples who bravely share their infertility journey and the steps they’ve taken to detox their homes and lives. You’ll never look at plastic the same way again.
Launching alongside the film on March 16 is the Unplastic Your Life campaign; the campaign will drive mass awareness and mobilization around the plastic health crisis. The impact campaign will connect anxious audiences with tangible solutions to reduce their plastic exposure and opportunities to advance systemic policy change.
Watch The Plastic Detox on Netflix, releasing worldwide March 16.
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About Hip Hop Caucus
Formed in 2004, Hip Hop Caucus is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that leverages Hip Hop culture to encourage young people to participate in the democratic process. Through a collaborative leadership network, Hip Hop Caucus addresses core issues affecting underserved communities. Hip Hop Caucus programs and campaigns support solution-driven community organizing led by today’s young leaders.