On this year’s Chinese Valentine's Day, August 9th, Greenpeace Taiwan launches this video to link the idea of the invisible and everlasting “love” to the invisible and everlasting “microplastics”.
Microbeads or microplastics, are tiny plastic particles found in many products, from toothpaste to body cleansers. Too small to be filtered by most water treatment systems, the particles end up in rivers, oceans and the food chain, harming marine life and polluting the entire ecosystem.
The couple in this video is bathing together and discussing about what is that you can’t see but exists and lasts forever. The girl says it is “love” but the boy corrects her and says it’s “microplastics”. The video goes on to a tour led by an animation showing how the microplastics travel from the sink to the food chain and eventually reach the human body. The video has a happy ending: the boy asks the girl what is something that once it’s there it won’t ever go away, and the answer is love.