That push commences this Saturday in Chatham with the showing of the film “Tapped,” which critiques the bottled water industry, at the Orpheum Theatre at 10 a.m. That will be followed by a second movie “Divide in Concord,” about the successful battle to ban plastic bottles in Concord, Mass., which will be shown in every town on the Cape except for Mashpee, beginning April 7, in Eastham.
“It’s the concept on consumer responsibility; conscious consumerism,” explained Sustainable Practices founder economist Madhavi Venkatesan of Brewster, who has penned a text on sustainable economics.
Almost 90 percent of seabirds have some plastic in them.
“This has a huge impact in oceans.
Three hundred million tons of plastic is produced each year and 8 million tons of that winds up in the ocean.
Over 100 billion beverage bottle are molded every year in the U.S., 315 per person, and 57 percent of those are for water.
When you walk through a supermarket there are entire rows devoted to bottled soda and fruit juices, most of it in plastic.
“The first thing is you have to replace it with glass and people have to be more aware of the way they are choosing what they are consuming,” the Northeastern professor explained.
Plastic has only been an issue the last 50 to 60 years tops.
“Divide in Concord” on the Lower Cape will be shown as follows: Eastham Public Library, April 7, 12:30 p.m. Provincetown Public Library, April 8, 2 p.m. Chatham Orpheum, April 14, 9 a.m.