Review: BAG IT, Is Your Life Too Plastic?

The last Creative Writing class was watching a documentary movie Bag It: Is Your Life Too Plastic? which told about the plastic usage and its effect to the human and environment. Even though I was so sleepy at that time, here I'll try to write what can I remember from that movie. 

Directed by Suzan Beraza, the actor in this movie, Jeb Berrier, started to stop using plastic in their life for his wife pregnancy that will born soon. He knew that plastics have quite big role in all of the human stuffs because it's easy to be formed and produced. But, he also knew that it will harm human life and the environment too because of its material that cannot be degraded. Because of that, he wanna know more about plastics.


With some help from the experts, he went around the world to have a research about plastics. He looked for government's regulations about plastic which are different in one country and another. For example in Ireland, using plastic is charged and it affects 90% of plastic usage there, while in the US, American Chemistry Council tries hard to make plastic usage is free of charge.

Berrier also observed the effects of plastic waste from the river to the sea. It can harm the fishes and when the fish is eaten by human, its effect is not just disappear. All of Berrier' curiosity ends up with this question:

"Think about it, why would you make something that you're going to use for a few minutes out of a material that's basically going to last forever, and you're just going to throw it away. What's up with that?"

Berrier' observation, with the help of experts, about plastic from its advantages and disadvantages made the audiences were motivated and educated to use plastics wisely.