![]() | Image credit: Heal the Bay I've wondered before whether plastic bags are a distraction , and Bonnie has marveled at the lengths people will go to to get a designer reusable grocery bag instead. But having just watched a fascinating online documentar ... |
| This weekend, ChicoBag kicked off its nationwide Bag Monster tour in San Francisco. The goal: bring an to end to single use plastic waste. A Bag Monster, an invention as crafty as ChicoBag’s patented product itself, is a costume made of 500 plastic b ... |
| by Ashley Braun. Two things close to my heart—the epic nature documentary and the wry mockumentary —come together in this masterful mating display chronicling the circle of life for a “disposable” plastic bag. “Today we explore the cycle of life of ... |
| With the California Senate preparing to vote on AB 1998 -- a bill that would ban plastic bags statewide -- Heal the Bay has released... ... |
| Campaigners Heal the Bay's spoof wildlife documentary on the life of a plastic bag en route to the 'Pacific garbage patch'. The group is lobbying for a ban on plastic bags ... |
| If you thought Jeremy Irons was scary as the voice of Scar in the Lion King (come on, the scene with the wildebeest ...), you should hear him narrate "The Majestic Plastic Bag ," a four-minute short on YouTube. Actually, the mockumentary about the j ... |
![]() | Back in April, we posted about a beautiful short film by Ramin Bahrani about the life of a plastic bag and its journey to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. It was moving, particularly with the moving vocal narration by legendary director/actor Werner ... |
| We all know how terrible plastic bags are for the environment—they choke wildlife, they don't break down in landfills ( or in oceans ), they add to our demand for oil , and they aren't easy to recycle, which is the biggest reason why 90 percent of pl ... |
![]() | If you love "Planet Earth", "LIFE" and other nature shows on fascinating animal life, you won’t want to miss this new documentary on the latest endangered species — the plastic bag! Created by an environmental nonprofit called Heal the Bay, this fo ... |
| Collectively, Californians use 19 billion single-use plastic bags annually. Used but briefly, these bags have long-term consequences for California. ... |