The Majestic Plastic Bag
August 18, 2010 11:54 AM Subscribe
The Majestic Plastic Bag - A Mockumentary (narrator: Jeremy Irons).
The film is being used by the non-profit Heal The Bay to promote the passage of AB 1998 [PDF], a state measure that would ban the single-use of plastic bags in retail stores in California. "According to Heal the Bay, 19 billion bags are used across California every year, leading to 123,000 tons of waste and costing taxpayers $25 million a year in cleanup efforts."*
The PSA may have been inspired by Ramin Bahrani's 'Plastic Bag' (narrator: Werner Herzog) which also chronicled "a plastic bag from its life in the grocery store to its eventual home in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch."
The film is being used by the non-profit Heal The Bay to promote the passage of AB 1998 [PDF], a state measure that would ban the single-use of plastic bags in retail stores in California. "According to Heal the Bay, 19 billion bags are used across California every year, leading to 123,000 tons of waste and costing taxpayers $25 million a year in cleanup efforts."*
The PSA may have been inspired by Ramin Bahrani's 'Plastic Bag' (narrator: Werner Herzog) which also chronicled "a plastic bag from its life in the grocery store to its eventual home in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch."
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Previous FPPs on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch:
"Life in plastic, it's fantastic."posted by ericb at 11:58 AM on August 18, 2010
Your discarded plastic cup is floating.
Whirling Vortex of Stupidity.
Studying the plastic soup.
Avoiding death by plastic.
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