Green News: by Masha Megrelis As we continue our confinement, it seems like a good time to reflect on the environment, the urgent “The True Cost” climate issues that face us and how we can all be a part of the solution. Here are a few interesting This brilliant documentary explores the documentaries that deal with various problems environment and social impacts of fast fashion and contributing to climate change. the consumer culture. Clothes have become so inexpensive that most people buy items, wear them “The Clean Bin Project” a few times and literally throw them away. The real This is a fantastic documentary about a Canadian price tag of this throwaway culture is very high in couple who try to live as zero waste as possible terms of damage to the environment. There is also during one year. Besides documenting their day-to- an undeniable human cost to it as the fast fashion is day struggles during the project, it also provides a manufactured by people in developing countries great overview of the larger environmental issues who work in precarious conditions. involved in the waste we produce. One moment in the film really struck me - it showed a photo of a Barbie in a cardboard box in 1953 and compared it “Plastic Wars” to the way it’s sold now. The same product went from being sold in one cardboard box to a box with This is a PBS Frontline documentary that examines lots of plastic and other unnecessary packaging. our broken recycling system. Many of the issues The level of waste, everyday worldwide, that comes that we are dealing right now, were already being just from this kind of absolutely unnecessary discussed decades ago. Hopefully, now real packaging, is staggering. I rented the film on solutions will be found to reduce the use of singleVimeo. I believe it’s available on some of the iTunes use plastic and to deal with the plastics produced stores. more effectively.
“Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story”
This documentary was created by the same couple who produced the above-mentioned documentary. "Just Eat It” is a real eye-opener about food waste. In this one the couple decided to eat only discarded food for six months. The documentary is available on iTunes.
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