“Plastic People” Film Screening

Screening Times 📅 Sunday, August 9, 2026 11:30 am, 1:30 pm, and 3:30 pm 📍 National Museum of the Great Lakes In partnership with Partners for Clean Streams Join the National Museum of the Great Lakes and Partners for Clean Streams for a special screening of the award-winning documentary Plastic People, a powerful investigation into the growing crisis of microplastic pollution and its impact on both environmental and human health. Plastic is everywhere — and almost every piece ever made eventually breaks down into microscopic particles known as microplastics. These particles now drift through the air, float in our waterways, settle into the soil, and have even been discovered in human organs, blood, brain tissue, and placentas. Through interviews with leading scientists and researchers, Plastic People explores the urgent questions surrounding our global dependence on plastic and what these invisible pollutants could mean for the future of our health and our waters. This screening is presented in conjunction with Currents of Change: The Living History of the Great Lakes, the museum’s first-ever ecological history exhibition, which explores the evolving relationship between people and the Great Lakes environment. Tickets are $5. Admission not included. Tickets coming soon!