At the risk of getting fined by the politically correct police, the multi-instrumentalist who also played acoustic and electric guitars on the album expanded on the "paper or plastic?" issue that "The Life" addresses.
We began a conversation that continued over months and intersected with two others who were also working on plastics issues, Daniella Russo, a visionary filmmaker at Sea Studios (now Executive Director of Plastic Pollution Coalition), and Manuel Maqueda, a pioneer in using social media to activate around ocean protection and plastic pollution reduction.
The last is brought to prominence as the film follows Joe Berrier through an odyssey from unawareness of plastic's issues into substantive knowledge and concern.
I had worked on plastic pollution issues as part of my environmental work for many years, but nothing prepared me for the discovery of the vast amount of disposable plastics that go unaccounted for after production, never making it to a landfill or a recycling facility.
Course officials have issued detailed rules, regulating the line with numbered plastic bracelets issued to car sitters, who must wear them until teeing off.
The plastic bag issue really is not one of them, and yet in terms of air time and emotion it punches well above its weight, particularly the landfill weight of plastic bags – they take up just 0.3% of landfill space.
The plastic bag issue has divided environmentalists with some arguing the action is inconsequential while others say it is an important symbol of reduced consupmtion and often leads to further environmental action.
One photo, among dozens turned over to The Nation during the investigation, shows an American soldier acting as if he is about to eat the spilled brains of a dead Iraqi man with his brown plastic Army-issue spoon.
He was peering through his nerdy oversize brown plastic Army-issue glasses at Sergeant Bell and the other drill sergeants who control the every movement of a private in basic training.
Yes, Washington is still gorging on the public plastic by issuing trillions of dollars in new debt.
