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"Bag It" Movie

Location

Main Library
Lecture Hall
449 Broadway
Cambridge, MA 02138

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Neighborhood

  • Mid-Cambridge

Description

Americans use 60,000 plastic bags every five minutes—single-use disposable bags that we mindlessly throw away. But where is “away?” Where do the bags and other plastics end up, and at what cost to our environment, marine life and human health?

Join your fellow neighbors at the Cambridge Public Library for the documentary: Bag It on Monday, February 22 at 6:15pm at the Main Library at 449 Broadway, Lecture Hall. Conversation to follow with panel of local experts.

Bag It follows “everyman” Jeb Berrier as he navigates our plastic world. He's not a radical environmentalist, but an average American who decides to take a closer look at our cultural love affair with plastics asking some simple questions: Are plastic bags really necessary? What are they made from? What happens to bags after they are discarded? Jeb looks beyond plastic bags and discovers that virtually everything in modern society—from baby bottles, to sports equipment, to dental sealants, to personal care products—is made with plastic or contains potentially harmful chemical additives used in the plastic-making process. When Jeb’s journey takes a personal twist, we see how our crazy-for-plastic world has finally caught up with us and what we can do about it. Today. Right now.

To move Cambridge towards a more sustainable future the City Council passed the Bring Your Own Bag Ordinance (effective 3/31/16) to increase use of reusable bags and reduce use of single-use disposable bags to protect the environment, advance solid waste reduction, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and protect waterways.

The Bring Your Own Bag (BYOB) ordinance takes effect March 31, 2016. Under the ordinance, single-use plastic bags will no longer be permitted at the point of sale. There will be a charge (minimum 10¢/bag) on all checkout bags, including paper bags, at retail stores. Cambridge shoppers are encouraged to bring their own bag(s) to protect the environment and avoid the mandatory charge.

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