Has the plastic industry used recycling to sell more plastic? With the industry rapidly expanding and the crisis of ocean pollution growing, FRONTLINE and NPR investigate the fight over the future of plastics. Plastic Wars premieres Tuesday, March 31, 2020, at 10/9c on PBS.org/frontline. WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Rick Young
CO-PRODUCERS Fritz Kramer and Emma Schwartz
CORRESPONDENT Laura Sullivan
REPORTED BY Emma Schwartz and Laura Sullivan
EDITED BY Adam Lingo and Fritz Kramer
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Tim Grucza
ADDITIONAL REPORTING and FRONTLINE / IRW FELLOW Orion Donovan-Smith
ORIGINAL MUSIC John E. Low
SENIOR PRODUCER Frank Koughan
FRONTLINE MANAGING EDITOR Andrew Metz
FRONTLINE EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Raney Aronson-Rath
"Plastic Wars" is a FRONTLINE production with American University School of Communication’s Investigative Reporting Workshop in collaboration with NPR. | 
