Clean Water Action has joined Habits of Waste to ask the producers, writers, directors, and set decorators in Hollywood to end the proliferation of single-use plastics on-screen.
The Problem:
It is evident that single-use plastics on screen further normalizes the throw-away society that we find ourselves in today.
Sociology and Psychology experts agree that film and television subliminally dictate what is and isn’t acceptable to our collective society.
“Social scientists agree that there are profoundly important relationships between motion pictures and human behavior.” – Franklin Fearing PhD “Influence of the Movies on Attitudes and Behavior”
With staggering numbers such as 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 we must find innovative ways to close the “tap”.
The Solution:
We need Hollywood to significantly reduce the amount of single-use plastic that is shown on screen so that we can end the normalization of trillions of single-use plastics discarded per year.
Similar to the studies that showed how cigarette exposure through onscreen smoking in movies increase smoking rates, it is evident that single-use plastic on screen further normalizes the throw-away society that we find ourselves in today.
Join the Habits of Waste Lights, Camera, Plastic? campaign! Click here to send an email to to The Producers Guild, The Writers Guild, The Directors Guild, The Screen Actors Guild, IATSE, The Art Directors Guild and the biggest studios in Hollywood to request that they eliminate single-use plastics on screen and help denormalize single-use plastics.
