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Film: "Bag It: Is Your Life Too Plastic?"

The Suncoast Sierra Club presents this award-winning film that follows average guy Jeb Berrier as he examines whether plastic bags are necessary, how they are made, and waht happens to them after they are discarded. Among his findings? Americans use 60,000 plastic bags every five minutes -- leading to 14 million pounds of trash in the ocean each year, organizers say.

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