Made by passionate volunteers on a super tiny budget, on the behalf of Green Sangha! Thanks folks! www.GreenSangha.org/plastics-campaign/
and www.NewMessageMedia.com/contact/
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from Green Sangha:
http://bit.ly/greensanghaplastics NEWS FLASH: Congrats to ITALY going Single-Use-Bag Free On New Year's Day!
Ben Zolno - Writer/Lyricist/Director/Bag Boy/Editor
Glenn Sauber - Shopper
AshEl Eldridge - Rapper
http://seasunz-and-jbless.bandcamp.com/ Jenni Perez - Singer
Bex Kanengiser - Cashier
Many awesome Green Sangha volunteers - Shoppers
Amy English - Production Coordinator, AD
David Nakabayashi - DP
Harrison Pierce - Consultant, Animatic, AC
Bo Cox - Camera Op
Seneca - Rap Recording Engineer
Colin Menzies - Working Music Track
Amurai
http://bit.ly/amuraipsm - Final Music Track and Mastering
Sponsored by
Good Earth Organic -
http://bit.ly/goodearthorganicpsm To-Go Ware -
http://bit.ly/togowarepsm Chico Bag -
http://bit.ly/chicobagplastic People Towels -
http://bit.ly/peopletowelspsm Sponsorship Coordinator - Carrie Staller sustainablesales at g mail dot com
LYRICS
Shoulda brought your own bag
Yeah but you forgot it though
You were busy dreamin of ice cream and
all that cookie dough
Your life is wrapped in plastic
Convenience is your motto
But plastic addiction's worse
than they want you to know
BP's oil spill
Almost like we did it -
We use one million grocery-bags
every single minute
Recycling them's a joke yo
That baggie don't go anywhere
It turns to little pieces
and then it spreads over everywhere
Into your food supply
Into your blood supply
Not to mention birds and fish and
Cuties you don't wanna die
Just look at baby Sammy
Dioxins in its milky way,
cuz even her breast milk it's got
PCB and BPA
OK now you get it
How you gonna stop it though
Banning Single Use Plastic Bags
is the way to go!
Join other states and cities
Kick the nasty habit
Tell your representatives
Ban single-use bags made from
Chorus:
Plastic
Fossil product all your crap's made of
There's one thing we can do
Ban bags made of plastic
Skip the bag, the cup and spork dude
Convenience will kill you
Ban single use plastic toxic bags
Bridge:
Sustainably we go forth and save our cities
Bringing your own bag and forks and bottles should be easy
But corporations selling toxins bought the government
Stand together for yourself, your kids, the planet sayin'
Yeah, yeah,
Ban single-use bags made of
Chorus:
PLASTIC
Fossil product all your crap's made of
There's one thing we can do
Ban bags made of plastic
Bring your own don't you forget dude
And let your reps know too
Ban single use plastic toxic bags!
FAQ
Q: How many plastic bags were used in this video, eh? Mm? Eh?
A: We asked volunteers to bring in only used bags they found lying around outside, and other plastic bags were part of the bag monster costumes. After the shoot, the bags went back to the homes or put back onto the costume.
Sometimes we have to do environmental harm to have a larger benefit, e.g take an airplane to Washington DC to help pass effective pollution emissions policy, but in the case of this plastic bag video, we didn't have to do so.
5 Comments
eric3579What bugs the shit out of me is I dont know how to get around using plastic bags when purchasing fruits and vegetables. Each type of fruit or vegetable needs its own separate bag. Throwing those bags away has always bugged me.
TrancecoachReally happy to see my buddy AshEl Eldridge getting some play on the sift..
chingaleraThose thin little veggy bags make about as much an impact in the grand scheme of the environmental clusterfuck as a single wild horse fart. Reserve that guilt for an unwanted pregnancy or maybe changing your car's motor oil on a public beach?
Or, you could simply save them all in a box in your closet where they couldn't choke anemone...I know! Melt them into a giant blob on the end of a pole, a quick-crete base, and you've got public art!
So FUCKING hate public service parodies with too-much-too-little-too-late messages, especially when lame rappers take two minutes to scrawl lamer lyrics on a bev-nap at a tittle bar ass-raping a decent tune to remind idiots to remain idiots.
Hacks und posers.
What bugs the shit out of me is I dont know how to get around using plastic bags when purchasing fruits and vegetables. Each type of fruit or vegetable needs its own separate bag. Throwing those bags away has always bugged me.
SagemindWhere I live, All Major grocery stores have stopped offering plastic bags for free. Instead they have cloth bags at the beginning of the line ups for purchase, or if you've forgotten yours, the teller has better quality, reusable plastic bags at the till, but they are also going to cost you.
Because you don't want to dish out the 15¢ per bad cost, you just bring your own cloth bags.
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