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Bag It: Is Your Life Too Plastic? is a 2010 documentary film exposing the effects of plastic bags and other plastic consumer merchandise, and its effects on land ecosystems, the marine environment and the human body.
Jeb Berrier is exploring the effects of plastic bags, opting to stop using them as his wife enters pregnancy.
After conducting research with the help of an environmental scientist, Berrier analyzes environmental problems such as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Plastic fragments are found to outnumber plankton 40-to-1, and contributes to around 100,000 marine animal deaths, including birds, every year.
Calls to the American Chemical Society prove to be fruitless. He later discovers that plastics contain chemicals such as phthalates that can carry adverse effects to newborn babies, including decreased anogenital distance.
Berrier reflects on the rising rates of male infertility and other such as diabetes, obesity and attention deficit disorder, linking it to the ever-present problem of plastics.
The average consumer household products such as baby shampoos are also found to contain unsafe levels of phthalates.
When Jeb's partner, Anne, gives birth, the film gets personal and looks at recently controversial chemicals such as Bisphenol A found in plastics.
The film concludes with a review of recycling labels and shows ways that average citizens and consumers can minimize the harmful impact of plastic by reducing its use.
Stream Bag It on Netflix or iTunes.
Watch Bag It on The Documentary Channel.
Host a screening at your school or local library.
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