Tonight! Two events about trash:
- 6-8 pm: Public Meeting—Trash Talk for Ward 1 in City Hall Rm 1A/1B (701 E Broadway).
The City wants your ideas and questions about how to make the solid waste service (trash and recycling) work better for the community. This meeting is open to everyone—See the FCMo calendar for the talks for each Ward. Come talk about options for making trash collection safer for city workers, increasing recycling, and creating a more equitable way to bill trash collection. Short presentations by staff and interested community groups will be followed by a community conversation, where all ideas, comments and questions will be collected. Your voices will be part of a report to Council during the first meeting of June that will be used to inform the city on how to proceed with changes to solid waste. The entire meeting will be dedicated to the topic of the Solid Waste Division. Comment forms will be available and all comments will be included in a report to council, currently scheduled to be presented on June 1.
- 6:45-8:45 pm: Movie & Discussion—Bag It: Is Your Life Too Plastic? (2011) [NR] [1:19] showing in the Friends Room at the Columbia Public Library (100 W Broadway / intersection of Broadway & Garth).
Are you wondering what the hubbub is over plastic bags and why Columbia is considering a bag ordinance? Come to the movie and learn about the visible and hidden impacts of plastic. There will be a discussion after the movie.
Bag It is an award-winning environmental documentary: Try going a day without plastic. Plastic is everywhere and infiltrates our lives in unimaginable and frightening ways. In this touching and often flat-out-funny film, we follow “everyman” Jeb Berrier, who is admittedly not a tree hugger, as he embarks on a global tour to unravel the complexities of our plastic world. What starts as a film about plastic bags evolves into a wholesale investigation into plastic and its effect on our waterways, oceans, and even our own bodies. We see how our crazy-for-plastic world has finally caught up to us and what we can do about it.
