Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Thailand is drowning in plastic; the communities living beside its petrochemical industry are paying the price with their health.
In Rayong Province, the heart of Thailand's plastic and petrochemical industry, local communities live with illness, environmental degradation, and collapsing fish populations. But this is not just a local story.
Unmasked reveals how plastic pollution affects every level of Thai society,from frontline communities beside petrochemical complexes to ordinary citizens exposed to hazardous chemicals found in soil, dust, and human blood. It also exposes the "false solutions" being promoted in place of real change: recycling and waste-to-energy schemes that carry serious environmental costs of their own. But these schemes ignore a crucial truth. The harm caused by plastic begins long before it's discarded. It starts at the point of production.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
01:12 Petrochemicals industry
03:00 Impact
05:30 Plastics
14:06 Recycling
18:40 Expansion
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Thailand is drowning in plastic; the communities living beside its petrochemical industry are paying the price with their health.
In Rayong Province, the heart of Thailand's plastic and petrochemical industry, local communities live with illness, environmental degradation, and collapsing fish populations. But this is not just a local story.
Unmasked reveals how plastic pollution affects every level of Thai society,from frontline communities beside petrochemical complexes to ordinary citizens exposed to hazardous chemicals found in soil, dust, and human blood. It also exposes the "false solutions" being promoted in place of real change: recycling and waste-to-energy schemes that carry serious environmental costs of their own. But these schemes ignore a crucial truth. The harm caused by plastic begins long before it's discarded. It starts at the point of production.
Subscribe to the Environmental Justice Foundation for more documentaries on ocean protection, the realities of global heating, and the urgent environmental justice issues shaping our world today: youtube.com/channel/UCymOLQE4_vBQBzUKXTBfYwQ?sub_confirmation=1
CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
01:12 Petrochemicals industry
03:00 Impact
05:30 Plastics
14:06 Recycling
18:40 Expansion
WATCH MORE
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwP2bxq6Y2Tom5AE-EPATNSByq2MNmy1L
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwP2bxq6Y2TrpIn5jco7tmWIVf65ITQeO
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwP2bxq6Y2TrHJO9OXTduawozo9OK_XTC
ABOUT EJF
The Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) is an international NGO working to defend our shared natural environment and human rights: ejfoundation.org
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ejfoundation.org
Facebook: facebook.com/ejfoundation
Instagram: instagram.com/ejfoundation
#plasticpollution #sustainability
#climateaction
