newportFILM Presents Free Environmental Film Screening of TRASHED Tonight

newportFILM will screen TRASHED tonight, November 14 at St. Mary's Episcopal Church , 324 East Main Road, Portsmouth, NH (co-presented by Aquidneck Land Trust & Town of Portsmouth's Recycling Committee, with valuable support from The Green Grocer, Clean Ocean Access and ecoRI. In partnership with Sustainable Aquidneck, Clean Water Action, Sailors for the Sea, People's Power & Light & Surfrider Foundation).

FREE Admission, RSVP at: http://www.newportfilm.com/film-events/films/trashed.

6:00 PM - Coffee & snacks provided by The Green Grocer during community partner chat hour
7:00 PM - Film, followed by panel discussion by local experts

About TRASHED: In this multi award-winning film, Jeremy Irons looks at the risks to the food chain and the environment through pollution of our air, land and sea by waste pollution. This film shows how the risks to our survival can easily be averted through sustainable approaches that provide far more employment than the current 'waste industry'.

Showing this film is important because... Civilization's waste threatens our planet's life support systems. Working toward zero waste on the west coast, communities recycle over 70% while here on the island we recycle less than half that sum. Tabling by community partners and a post-event panel discussion with Q&A will bring together the community to inspire a conversation around how we can do better.

Panel Speakers:

Michael Brown
Founder and owner of Packaging 2.0, a company with a mission to develop sustainable, environmentally sound packaging while reducing overall costs.

Sarah Kite
Director of recycling department of the Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation (RRIRC). She and her staff are responsible for operating both the statewide municipal recycling education and technical services program and the Materials Recycling Facility (MRF) in Johnston, Rhode Island

Bert Emerson
Assistant Professor of Graphic Design and Interactive Media Art at Salve Regina University. He was recently featured on the cover of The Mercury in Newport for his 700-Year plastic composter project now featured at the Dorrance H. Hamilton Gallery on the Salve Campus.

Dave McLaughlin
Founder of Clean Ocean Access, a grass-roots 100% volunteer group concerned about safety, cleanliness and open access of the ocean and coastline of Aquidneck Island, Rhode Island and surrounding shorelines. Since 2006 the groups has scoured scores of tons of garbage from our waterways in regular clean-ups.

Kyle F. Hence
Newly hired Recycling Coordinator for the Town of Portsmouth; Trustee and President of Sustainable Aquidneck, a non-profit organization he co-founded in 2012 to advance sustainable practices and initiatives on Aquidneck Island; Fellow for the SE Greenhouse social enterprise "Change Accelerator" sponsored by the van Beuren Charitable Foundation; Founding member of Change Place, an incubator for social ventures based in downtown Newport; Contributor to ecoRI, Rhode Island's environmental news source; Yacht captain.

For more information, visit www.newportFILM.com, and watch the trailer for TRASHED below!