<div dir="ltr">Dear all: Please consider attending this free, film screening of "Bag It" at which Jenny Romer will discuss legislation proposed by the City Council that will require retail and grocery stores to charge a 10 cent fee for paper and single use check out plastic bags. According to Kathryn Garcia, the NYC Commissioner of Sanitation, the department typically collects 1,700 tons of plastic bags every week which costs NYC taxpayers $12.5 million annually in landfill fees. The legislation will also reduce the harmful environmental impacts from plastic bags. Lisa <br><br><br><div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"></span><div bgcolor="yellow" link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><div><table style="width:100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0in" valign="top"><p><span style="font-size:1pt;line-height:130%">Friday October 30, 2015– Screening of “BAG IT” When: Friday 10/30/15 screening starts at 6:30 pm. Doors Open at 6:00 pm. Where: Rutgers Presbyteria</span></p><p><span style="font-size:1pt;line-height:130%"><img src="https://madmimi.com/images/34095493724/beacon.gif?"><u></u><u></u></span></p><div><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:1pt;line-height:130%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:rgb(60,25,38)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div align="center"><table style="width:442.5pt;border-collapse:collapse;border:medium none;border-spacing:0px;border-radius:5px" border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="590"><tbody><tr><td style="border-width:1pt 1pt medium;border-style:solid solid none;border-color:red red -moz-use-text-color;background:lightyellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%;padding:0in;border-radius:5px 5px 0px 0px"><div align="center"><table style="width:442.5pt;border-collapse:collapse;border-radius:5px 5px 0px 0px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="590"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0in;border-spacing:0px;border-radius:5px"><div align="center"><table style="width:442.5pt;background:lightyellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0px;border-radius:5px 5px 0px 0px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="590"><tbody><tr><td style="width:442.5pt;padding:0in" width="590"><p class="MsoNormal"><img src="https://cascade.madmimi.com/promotion_images/0888/4622/original/UFA_Climate_Web_Banner.jpg?1425354767" alt="UFA Climate Web Banner" height="125" width="590"><u></u><u></u></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr><tr><td style="padding:0in;max-width:100%"><table style="width:442.5pt;background:lightyellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0px" align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="590"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:18.75pt 22.5pt 15pt;border-spacing:0px" valign="top"><table style="width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;max-width:100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td style="width:397.5pt;padding:0in" width="530"><table style="width:243pt;border-collapse:collapse;border:medium none;border-spacing:0px;float:right" align="right" border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="324"><tbody><tr><td style="border:1pt solid lightyellow;padding:0in"><div style="margin-left:22.5pt;margin-top:2.25pt;margin-bottom:11.25pt;float:right"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:right" align="right"><img src="https://cascade.madmimi.com/promotion_images/1062/9831/original/Bag_It.jpg?1445801134" alt="Bag It" height="455" width="294"><u></u><u></u></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div><h1 style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in"><b><span style="font-size:16pt;line-height:130%;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif;color:darkred">Friday October 30, 2015 – Screening of “BAG IT”</span></b><span style="font-size:16pt;line-height:130%;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif;color:darkred"><u></u><u></u></span></h1><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:15.6pt;margin-left:0in;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:130%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:rgb(60,25,38)">When: Friday 10/30/15 screening starts at 6:30 pm. Doors Open at 6:00 pm.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:15.6pt;margin-left:0in;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:130%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:rgb(60,25,38)">Where: Rutgers Presbyterian Church at 236 West 73rd Street west of Broadway, 5th Floor, New York City<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:15.6pt;margin-left:0in;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:130%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:rgb(60,25,38)">Admission is free. We would appreciate any donation amount at the door, which will go to the Rutgers Presbyterian Church for their good works and their generous support of our movement.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:15.6pt;margin-left:0in;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:130%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:rgb(60,25,38)">Please join us in screening of <b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">"Bag It"</span></b>, a documentary film about single-use, carry-out plastic bags. These bags are made from finite fossil fuel resources such as oil and natural gas. The bags are usually given out for free by retailers and are generally used for a very brief time. Ultimately, most of them end up in landfills, trees, sewerage systems, and most disturbingly, in our oceans and other waterways. The toxins contained in them are being found in marine animals and thus in our food supply. They are decimating the aquatic ecosystem.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:15.6pt;margin-left:0in;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:130%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:rgb(60,25,38)">Following the 79-minute film, Jennie Romer will lead a Q&A session. Ms. Romer is a national expert on plastic bag laws (see her <b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><a href="https://go.madmimi.com/redirects/1445838989-6803931bd1680164ae755097cc572283-29440a7?pa=34095493724" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(21,147,168);text-decoration:none">website</span></a></span></b>). <b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><a href="https://go.madmimi.com/redirects/1445838989-c6a8427eb507879e3aa132a90a4aa633-29440a7?pa=34095493724" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(21,147,168);text-decoration:none">Int 209</span></a></span></b> is a bill which has been introduced in the NYC Council to encourage reusable bags. The bill is being spearheaded by Council Members Lander and Chin and is currently before the NYC Council. It is also awaiting an answer from the Mayor on whether or not he supports it. Come hear from Jennie what lessons have been learned from other cities’ efforts and how those lessons were incorporated into the proposed law for NYC. You’ll also learn more about the BagItNYC coalition and their work to help encourage Mayor de Blasio and council members who have not yet signed on to support the bill.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:15.6pt;margin-left:0in;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:130%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:rgb(60,25,38)">Here is a <b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><a href="https://go.madmimi.com/redirects/1445838989-dba561cb22c445b37745d486d334652d-29440a7?pa=34095493724" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(21,147,168);text-decoration:none">trailer</span></a></span></b> for the film.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:15.6pt;margin-left:0in;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:130%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:rgb(60,25,38)">Please note that Rutgers Presbyterian Church which donated this venue for our screening has standard communications equipment found in most offices, including WiFi, that cannot be disconnected for the purposes of our event.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:15.6pt;margin-left:0in;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:130%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:rgb(60,25,38)">About the Film<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:15.6pt;margin-left:0in;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:130%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:rgb(60,25,38)">Americans use 60,000 plastic bags every five minutes—single-use disposable bags that we mindlessly throw away. But where is “away?” Where do the bags and other plastics end up, and at what cost to our environment, marine life and human health?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:15.6pt;margin-left:0in;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:130%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:rgb(60,25,38)">Bag It follows “everyman” Jeb Berrier as he navigates our plastic world. Jeb is not a radical environmentalist, but an average American who decides to take a closer look at our cultural love affair with plastics. Jeb’s journey in this documentary film starts with simple questions: Are plastic bags really necessary? What are plastic bags made from? What happens to plastic bags after they are discarded?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:15.6pt;margin-left:0in;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:130%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:rgb(60,25,38)">Jeb looks beyond plastic bags and discovers that virtually everything in modern society—from baby bottles, to sports equipment, to dental sealants, to personal care products—is made with plastic or contains potentially harmful chemical additives used in the plastic-making process. When Jeb’s journey takes a personal twist, we see how our crazy-for-plastic world has finally caught up with us and what we can do about it. Today. 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