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Silent Film, Short Animation Win Top Prizes in Video Contest Promoting Plastic Bag Recycling, Reuse

(Richmond, VA) – April 8, 2011 – A silent cinema spoof featuring two squabbling teenage girls with big ideas on recycling and a short flick about a happy-bag-turned-sad-sac have each been named grand prize winners in the A Bag’s Life video contest for Virginia high school students.

Think Outside The Bag

Everyone, it seems, is looking for ways to reuse what’s on hand.

Enter the simple plastic bag. Recycling your plastic bags is one way to give them a second chance. You can drop them off at a store that takes them back and viola! your plastic bags are repurposed into benches, patio decking, crates and flower pots.

And at home there are endless uses for plastic bags. Here are a ideas for reusing plastic bags that we've found from searching the Internet.

North Carolina joins A Bag's Life recycling campaign

News & Observer (By Sue Stock)

Today, North Carolina became the fourth state to join a plastic bag recycling campaign called A Bag's Life.

North Carolina retailers and legislators gathered on the steps of the Legislative Building in Raleigh to announce the formal launch of the program in North Carolina this morning.

News 14 Carolina

RALEIGH — State lawmakers want to keep plastic bags out of landfills. Wednesday marked the kickoff of the "A Bag's Life" campaign. It calls for residents to reduce, reuse and recycle whenever and wherever they can.

"The bag is not the problem," said Rep. Ruth Samuelson. "We are the problem when we choose not to reuse those bags or figure out a way to recycle."

A website and a phone application are available that show the public how and where to recycle bags.

http://bit.ly/h738v8

Around the Statehouse

(The Associated Press) -- The North Carolina Retail Merchants Association and Keep North Carolina Beautiful campaign unveiled at the Legislative Building a statewide effort to encourage recycling of the nearly ubiquitous plastic grocery bags.