JUN 5 – Single Use Planet
Thursday, June 5 at 7:00 pm
SINGLE-USE PLANET – A prize-winning documentary
FREE film + discussion event
Donations accepted at the door
100% of donations will go to local nonprofit Town Run Watershed group
Narrated by Peter Coyote, SINGLE-USE PLANET features entertaining animation and musical interludes that help illustrate the connections between public health, plastics production, and industry influence on government policy.
Plastic is vital in so many ways to our modern way of life and well-being — but not all forms of it. In search of why more and more single-use plastic debris enters the ocean despite all efforts to recycle, SINGLE-USE PLANET goes upstream to where millions of tons of raw plastic are being made amidst the ruins of America’s bygone steel industry in Pennsylvania.
Further upstream, we see the economic and political realities that have boosted the new industry — realities reaching all the way to rural Louisiana where plans are laid to build the biggest plastic plant in the world. Can the powerful industry be persuaded to temper their production of single-use plastic? Our search leads to Washington D.C. — where a federal bill to regulate the industry remains stalled — and finally to France, where the prohibition of campaign donations by corporations may provide a key to the effective reduction of plastic pollution.
Runtime: 59 minutes. Brief presentations and audience discussion following the film screening.
This screening of Single Use Planet is made possible by Moms Clean Air Force and the Shepherdstown Opera House.
The historic Shepherdstown Opera House is cozy vaudeville era theater that seats 100 — advance reservations encouraged. Doors open 30 minutes before showtime. Online reservations end 2 hours before showtime. Popcorn, candy, soft drinks, beer & wine available for purchase (no outside food or drinks please). Lobby, theater & restroom are wheelchair accessible.