'Pacific Garbage Patch' at Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Door County

EPHRAIM - This month's screening for the Movies That Matter series at Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Door County collaborates with Earth Week Door County and Celebrate Water Door County to show the documentary "Plastic Paradise: the Great Pacific Garbage Patch."

The 2013 release intends to illustrate the often unseen consequences of over-consumption of plastics and how this ubiquitous material is destroying the health of the environment, its creatures and humans. To give detail and a specific face to the situation, it investigates the suffering marine habitat of the remote Midway Islands, on the northern edge of what's been called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch or Pacific Trash Vortex, a place where ocean currents bring plastics and other trash together from waters around the world.  

Earth Week Door County is a week of activities sponsored through a collaborative effort of the Climate Change Coalition of Door County, The Forest Recovery Project, The Ridges Sanctuary and The Nature Conservancy to observe Earth Day and Arbor Day. For a list of events or more information, go to facebook.com/Earthweekdoorcounty. 

The Movies That Matter series is designed to examine a wide range of issues with movies that invite consciousness and intellectual inquiry. Screenings are held on the third Tuesday of every month, with discussion following the movie. Admission is free, although donations are appreciated, and the public is welcome.

"Plastic Paradise: the Great Pacific Garbage Patch" plays for the Movies That Matter series at 4:30 p.m. April 17 at Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 10341 State 42, Ephraim. For more information, call 920-854-7559 or go to uufdc.org.