So last week I watched this documenter film entitled “Bag It”.
This is made by . They said that it is a film about plastic bag. Well, I was
expecting a journey of a talking plastic bag going through the cycle of its
never ending live from the factory, to some shop or supermarket, and ended up
undergorund or at the town dumpster unable to pass to a new cycle live. Yes. I
completely aware that pastic bags are not always being recycled and that its
own existance will clog the cycle of live (pfft. Way to put it, drama queen).
And sure the film gave us that. Only that it’s not the plastic bag itself that
did the talking. It was Jeb Berrier who did the talking.
It’s nice watching the flow of the movie and how he gave us
simple fact without exagerating yet still get the impact in our mind. Come one,
who wouldn’t be surprised knowing there is a ring of plastic bag floating out
there in the middle of the ocean and that the marine lives are suffering for
what WE had done? This “Bag It” gives me the right dose of what I need to know
to take action (if I still have the human heart).
What is nice about this film is, it does not only shows the
fault of us human beings, but it also shows how some of decent men with good
working brain and kind heart out there already started out on their own way of
saving the world from plastic reign. For example, it is very educational
knowing that in German there are recycling vending machine that will give you a
few bucks from putting recycled plastic bottle inside and letting the machine (
or however the system works) recycled the bottle. This has a good effect of
encouraging people to recylcle their used plastic bottles. Seeing Heb Berrier
trying to change by actually reducing plastic use by bringing his own container
for grocery shopping or when he bought food is rather inspiring too.
There are lots of facts that actually important but not yet
widespread information that people should now about plastic an its danger to
the world. Most people though that it is always possible to recylce plastic so
as long as they put their plastic garbage in the right circle, the garbage will
always be recycled. The reality is not
that easy. Not all plastics are recycable and the other unrecycable plastics
goes... where? The film emphasize on the long existance of plastic once it is
created. It won’t just dissapear just when you want it too. Plastic is much
more complicated than that.
Overall, it is a nice way to start plastic conserving
campaign. Start from myself, and maybe to other people while I am at it.
