The Majestic Plastic Bag: A Mockumentary

Watch this. You will laugh, you will cry. You will wonder whatever happened to Jeremy Irons.

Then you will get angry. And maybe feel helpless, despite the fact that you've given up the plastic bag. If you live in Oregon, you might follow the Ban the Bag campaign on Facebook to keep tabs on next year's legislation effort. In California, Heal the Bay, a non-profit that produced that excellent video, is encouraging residents to contact their legislators TODAY to pass AB 1998 banning plastic bags statewide, which is coming up for a vote any day now. If efforts are ramping up wherever you are -- speak up, write a letter and ban those bags from your life by remembering your reusables!

(And if it bugs you that the video is slightly cut off along the right side, which I don't know how to fix, you can watch it in its full glory here.)