Environmental Film Festival - Day 5 Connecticut Premiere
Bag It follows Jeb Berrier as he pledges to stop using plastic bags. Jeb travels to several countries examining their bans on plastic shopping bags in stores. The documentary continues to look at the legislative battles to either tax plastic bags in stores or ban these bags. San Francisco has led the fight in having stores stop giving plastic bags to customers which in turn has led to other communities prohibiting the use of single use plastic bags. Jeb takes a look at the environmental impact of plastic by taking a trip to the Great Plastic Patch in the Pacific as we watch as dumpsters full of plastic being scooped out of the ocean . Bag It also looks at the negative impact on sea animals like turtles and the fish population in general as they ingest plastic.
The film then turns its attention to the effect that plastic is having on humans especially in the early development of children. This was very sobering and chilling. Bag It reinforces many of the messages of an earlier reviewed film titled Tapped. Green cloth shopping bags and glass containers here I come!
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