Single Use planet

Steve Cowan/2024/59 Min/Sustainability, Waste, Recycling

Teens and young adults are encouraged to attend.

“Single Use Planet is a powerful portrait of the plastics crisis but also shows how communities, activists, researchers and reformers are fighting to stem the tide.” -Michael Watts

“This is a timely, accessible film to prompt discussions about grassroots, corporate, and state power in the US today.” - Phaedra C. Pezzullo

“Single-Use Planet does a great job of showing another dimension of the plastics problem, emphasizing the link between plastic use and the petrochemical industry producing this material.” -Erin Murphy

Film Description: Plastic is vital in so many ways to our modern way of life and well-being—but not all forms of it. In search of why more and more single-use plastic debris enters the ocean despite all efforts to recycle, SINGLE-USE PLANET goes upstream to where millions of tons of raw plastic are being made amidst the ruins of America's bygone steel industry in Pennsylvania. Further upstream, we see the economic and political realities that have boosted the new industry—realities reaching all the way to rural Louisiana where plans are laid to build the biggest plastic plant in the world. Can the powerful industry be persuaded to temper their production of single-use plastic? Our search leads to Washington D.C.—where a federal bill to regulate the industry remains stalled—and finally to France, where the prohibition of campaign donations by corporations may provide a key to the effective reduction of plastic pollution. Winner of: Best U.S. Documentary, Santa Cruz Independent Film Fest/Best U.S. Documentary, Austin International Art Festival/Award of Distinction, IndieFEST Film Awards/Award of Excellence, Impact Docs/Award of Excellence, Accolade Global Film Competition

We will also be screening one of the One Earth Young Filmmakers winning films Throwaway Living by Helen Sun and Laura Malatos.

Stay after the film for an enlightening facilitated dialogue with relevant experts and advocates.

VIEW & BREW: Friday, April 25, 6 to 8:30 p.m. CDT
$25 includes film, food, and beverage starting at 5 p.m.
The Plant
1400 W 46th St, Chicago, IL 60609

We may have a limited number of scholarship tickets for those experiencing hardship. Please reach out to [email protected] for more info, with subject line: Scholarship Ticket Inquiry. Thank you!

Doors open at 4 P for beverages (including 21+ drinks) at Whiner Beer Company, with plant-based-friendly fare available for purchase from Meet Stop ((Josh link to Meet Stop by Ste Martaen))  Check-in and visiting with environmental and climate action partners begins at 5:15P. Ticket includes film and program; a 5:30P tour of The Plant’s acclaimed circular economy business incubator for the first 30 arriving guests (or a tour voucher for later-arriving guests to use until Jun 30), and one drink ticket for any Whiner Beer alcoholic or non-alcoholic draft offering (valid only for this event).

Friday, April 25, 5:30 to 9:00 p.m. CDT
Alt Space Chicago
5645 W Corcoran Pl, Chicago, IL 60644. Free with a suggested $8 donation.

Friday, April 25, 6 to 9:00 p.m. CDT
Institute of Cultural Affairs
4750 N Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL 60640. Free with a suggested $8 donation.