Vancouver Screening Tonight (Nov 5th)!

We're pretty excited to be having our second Vancouver screening at the brand spanking new SFU Woodwards downtown.

Grant and I spent some quality time on the streets of Vancouver on Wed, handing out flyers, talking trash, and generally attracting attention with an awesome plastic bag costume we borrowed from the Surfrider Foundation - thanks guys!

Metro Vancouver (who has loved our project from the start since it coincides so perfectly with their Zero Waste Challenge) is graciously sponsoring the event. And Recycling Alternative is providing a mini recycling depot where people can drop off their batteries, unnumbered plastics, plastic bags, DVDs and CDs, and small electronics like cell phones for proper recycling!

We also have some sweet door prizes from Innate, Moukisac, and MEC that are geared towards helping you reduce your personal garbage and avoid crappy disposable items.

This will be our last Vancouver show for awhile, so we hope you tell your friends and come on out to SFU Woodward's downtown at 7pm tonight (Fri, Nov 5th). More info and tickets at http://www.stubmatic.com/cleanbinproject

The Perils of Plastic

Last weekend, we attended a heartfelt and powerful presentation by Jan Vozenilek about the growing problem with plastics in our oceans and its effect on Midway Island's albatross.

Although we have known about these issues for a couple years, we were still both overcome with emotion; seeing Jan's latest images from Midway made it feel as if we were hearing it for the first time. In addition to sharing short films and images, Jan brought a collection of plastic collected from inside the stomaches of dead baby birds. I was astounded by how many lighters and toothbrushes there were in the pile, and it really hit home that this plastic was our plastic: stuff that we all use everyday is killing marine wildlife.

To balance all that doom and gloom, Jan shared some positive stories such as the girl in Penticton who campaigned to get her highschool to give up plastic waterbottles (and achieved success in only one year!) and how the videos his team took on Midway have reached thousands of people around the globe. If you ever get a chance to see Jan speak, I highly recommend it, but in the meantime, please visit www.midwayjourney.com

In the photo left to right... Joe Schweers (filmmaker), Jan Vozenilek (filmmaker), Grant, Jen, Taina (Plastic Manners - who is living plastic free for 2010!)

Waste Reduction Week

This week is Waste Reduction Week! What better time to tackle personal waste?

We are celebrating Waste Reduction Week with a bunch of screenings. We kicked off a few days early with great community showings in the Township of Langley and Abbotsford.

On Tuesday and Wenesday, we're in and around Calgary, Alberta; thanks to the Recycling Council of Alberta, all screenings are FREE! If you missed us in Calgary the first time around, come on down!

Tu, Oct 19	SAIT Coffeehouse, V211 Campus Centre, 1301-16th Ave NW, Calgary	11:30am
Tu, Oct 19	UofC, MacEwen Student Centre, Bianca Room (2nd floor), Calgary	6pm
We, Oct 20	James Fowler School (students and staff only), Calgary	9am
We, Oct 20	Mount Royal University, rm Y-222, 4825 Mount Royal Gate SW, Calgary	noon
We, Oct 20	Cochrane Ranche House - Cochrane, AB	7pm