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? Bag It follows "everyman" Jeb Berrier as he navigates our plastic world. Jeb is not a radical environmentalist, but an average American who decides to take a closer look at our cultural love affair with plastics. Jeb's journey in this documentary film starts with simple questions: Are plastic bags really necessary? What are plastic bags made from? What happens to plastic 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 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.
Educational Mission
Watching Bag It is the first step toward creating change. The Bag It team created a curriculum guide to accompany the film geared towards grades 4-12 with the goal of inviting students to explore the effects of their everyday behavior on the environment, their health and their well-being. The lessons correlate with the chapters within Bag It's Educational DVD: Single-Use Disposables; Waste and Recycling; Oceans; Human Health; and Activism. Each chapter has one or two lessons and within each lesson there are several interactive and hands-on activities. Download the curriculum guide (grades 4-12) here.
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