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CARTM to screen documentary ‘Bag It’
By JAN BEHRS
NEHALEM — At 7 p.m. Sat-
urday, Jan. 28, CARTM will
host a screening of “Bag It,” a
documentary film that follows
one man’s journey as he tries
to make sense of our plas-
tic-coated lives. The film will
be shown in the North County
Recreation District theater on
Ninth Street in Nehalem, and
its star, Jeb Berrier, will be on
hand to answer questions after-
ward. Admission is free.
“Bag It,” which has won
more than a dozen film festival
awards, features Berrier’s
quest to find out what happens
to the tons of single-use, plas-
tic carry-out bags discarded
every day. He then discovers
the worldwide menace that
lurks behind our addiction to
disposable plastics.
As plastic breaks down,
it releases toxic chemicals,
including endocrine disruptors,
which are linked to cancer,
diabetes, attention deficit
hyperactivity disorder and
infertility. When fish, birds
and mammals swallow the
tiny pieces, Portland’s Office
of Planning & Sustainability
explains, these poisons enter
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Jeb Berrier, star of “Bag It,”
wears a few of the 60,000
plastic bags people in the
U.S. use and discard every 5
seconds.
the human food chain.
CARTM doesn’t accept
single-use bags for recycling
because they are unmarketable
and because there are better
options, said CARTM Exec-
utive Director Karen Reddick
Yurka.
“CARTM stopped
accepting plastic bags for
recycling in 2013,” she said.
“It cost more to ship them to
market than we received for
them, they took a tremendous
amount of time to process, and
the mess they created required
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the baler to be shut down
for cleaning afterwards. We
encourage our community to
choose durable, reusable bags
instead of disposable ones.”
Grocery stores started us-
ing plastic bags in the 1980s.
They’re cheaper than paper
but not by much. And, unlike
paper, plastic never biode-
grades; it remains a hazard
forever. Oregonians alone
consume more than 1 billion
plastic carry-out bags each
year, using them for less than
12 minutes, then tossing them
in the trash.
The bag problem, at least,
has a simple solution: Stop us-
ing plastic bags. “Living where
we do, it just makes sense to
use carry-out bags that don’t
end up getting blown into the
ocean and becoming litter on
our beaches,” said local resi-
dent Michael Maginnis.
A petition to ban single-use,
plastic carry-out bags in Man-
zanita will be available to sign
at the event.
ASTORIA — Dust off your
best dancing outfit (period
correct attire encouraged),
and kick up your heels at
a community swing dance
Tuesday, Jan. 31 at the Asto-
ria Arts & Movement Center,
located at 342 10th St. West-
ern swing band The Bar-K
Buckaroos will provide lively
dance tunes.
The dance will begin at
6:30 p.m. Admission is $6
per person or $10 per couple
with a $2 student ticket avail-
able with student ID. Tickets
are available at the door. The
price of admission includes a
one-hour introductory swing
dance lesson with dance in-
structor Jen Miller. The band
will take the stage from 7:30
to 9:30 p.m. For further ticket
information, contact Brad
Griswold at 360-951-9593.
The Bar-K Buckaroos
will play traditional Western
swing dance music in the
style of Bob Wills and his
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The Bar-K Buckaroos will provide the lively music for the Jan.
31 community swing dance in Astoria.
Texas Playboys. The band
is made up North Coast
musicians, featuring Brad
Griswold on rhythm guitar,
Dave Quinton on bass, Rich-
ard Thomasian on lead guitar,
Tom Peake on drums and
John Orr on pedal steel.
Collectively these mu-
sicians have played in such
Jan Behrs, formerly an editor
with The Oregonian and Better
Homes and Gardens maga-
zines, is a freelance writer based
in Manzanita.
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of Western swing and ’20s to
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