“The ‘Lights, Camera, Plastic?’ campaign that Habits of Waste has created allows all of us in the entertainment industry to put our best foot forward and reduce harmful single-use plastics on screen. By doing this, we are protecting our planet and giving reusables a better chance to be adopted throughout society.”
Chris Weitz
Co-writer About a Boy and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
NEW! We have created FREE materials for any production to download and use. Including: a watermark for scripts, set posters, and a sample email to help productions communicate with every crew member about this goal to reduce plastics ON screen.
Our goal is to denormalize single-use plastic throughout society, and we can achieve this goal by significantly limiting the amount of single-use plastics we see on screen. We must shift the societal mindset that accepts these harmful single-use plastics, and that starts by productions switching to reusables on screen instead of single-use, disposable plastics.
For this production, we will be joining the “Lights, Camera, Plastic?” campaign by the non-profit organization, Habitsofwaste.org. Our participation means that we will use reusable items on screen instead of single-use plastic items wherever possible.
Why are we doing this? The numbers are staggering. Imagine 1 million plastic bottles discarded per minute and 500 million plastic straws discarded per day or 40 billion pieces of plastic cutlery discarded per year and 160,000 plastic bags are used per second. We must find innovative ways to close the “tap”. These single-use plastics harm our planet as they are not recyclable and take hundreds of years to decompose.
How can we help? Sociology and Psychology experts agree that film and television subliminally dictate what is and isn’t acceptable in our collective society. Each film and television show created is potentially viewed by millions of people. What they see on screen normalizes human behavior. This is similar to the decline in smoking when it was reduced from Hollywood productions.
Together, we can create a ripple effect that inspires our viewers to be more sustainable in their everyday lives.
Thank you for your efforts to be a part of a big change.
