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Plastic Wars (full documentary) | FRONTLINE
FRONTLINE PBS | Official · 1 HN recommenders · 1 recommendation months
Recommended by 1 Hacker News commenters across 1 months (2020–2023).
SignalTube analysis
Among 26 other documentary videos tagged Environment, agriculture & food systems, the mean is 2.4 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 1 distinct HN recommenders, below that mean. Recommendations span 1 distinct month; the peer average is 2.7 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
33% of its 3 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2020–2023; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 53 minutes 16 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2020-04-01.
- Channel / speaker
- FRONTLINE PBS | Official
- Verified runtime
- 53m 16s
- YouTube upload date
- 2020-04-01
- Hacker News mention years
- 2020–2023
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other documentary videos in Environment, agriculture & food systems. “Shared recommenders” counts HN users who recommended both videos in the source graph.
| Video | HN recommenders | Recommendation months | Positive label share | Shared recommenders | Runtime | Upload date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plastic Wars (full documentary) | FRONTLINECurrent video | 1 | 1 | 33% | — | 53m 16s | 2020-04-01 |
| Dominion (2018) - full documentary [Official]documentary · Farm Transparency Project | 10 | 12 | 65% | No recorded overlap | 120m 0s | 2018-10-09 |
| Life in Syntropydocumentary · Agenda Gotsch | 4 | 8 | 67% | No recorded overlap | 15m 29s | 2015-12-02 |
| Man Spends 30 Years Turning Degraded Land into Massive Forest – Fools & Dreamers (Full Documentary)documentary · Happen Films | 4 | 5 | 63% | No recorded overlap | 29m 38s | 2019-07-27 |
THREE SOURCE-BASED CONTEXT POINTS
Why Hacker News recommends it
Each note combines the dataset’s stance label and short rationale; comment bodies are not reproduced. Open the HN source for the original discussion.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Scientists Say Recycling Has Backfired Spectacularly”. Its short rationale: Source for claim recycling served plastic producers.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “California aims to ban recycling symbols on things that aren’t recyclable”. Its short rationale: Documentary on recycling as industry scam.
The archive classifies this as a strong recommendation in “Pringles tube tries to wake from 'recycling nightmare'”. Its short rationale: Shows how little plastic is actually recycled.