"Clean Bin Project" Film at Centre 64, Kimberley on 8pm Wed. June 16

For a Year, They Bought Nothing and Threw Away Zilch 

Now BC Filmmakers are Cycling Canada & 'Talking Trash' with Their Documentary The Clean Bin Project

 What started as a personal challenge - a household competition to see who could produce the least amount of garbage - has now become a feature documentary that will be coming to Kimberley for a single showing at 8pm at Centre 64 on June 16th.  Filmmakers Grant Baldwin and Jenny Rustemeyer are hitting the road on bicycles to show their film The Clean Bin Project in communities across Canada. The Kimberley showing is sponsored by Wildsight and the Freewheelers Bike Club. Admision is by donation.

The Clean Bin Project is a feature documentary film about a regular couple and their quest to answer the question "is it possible to live completely waste free?" Partners Jen and Grant go head to head in a competition to see who can swear off consumerism and produce the least landfill garbage in an entire year. Their light-hearted competition to refuse, reduce and recycle their way to the smallest garbage bin is set against a darker examination of the large-scale environmental impacts of our “throw-away society” 

 "We had watched a lot of environmental films that were really informative, but we always felt so overwhelmed and deflated at the end of them," explains Grant, who directed and edited the film, "we wanted to make a movie that showed how choosing to do just one thing, like reducing your trash, can be not only manageable, but really empowering and fun."

 The pair has already been garnering accolades for their project and won the MOBI award for journalism adn media from the Recycling Council of BC just last week."We just started as a personal challenge, but it turns out that people are really intrigued by how we managed to produce so little garbage," says Jenny. "And they want to share their own stories as well."

 What people are saying

"That was amazing.  So artistic, professional, informative AND entertaining."

 "the movie was awesome. I left inspired to do more. . . Again, movie was totally awesome...and hilarious!"

 "Thoroughly impressed by the film last night! Information we need to hear and delivered in such a clever, entertaining way. My one step is to start using the produce bags!"

 "You guys were amazing on Saturday at our event, I can't think you enough!  It was exactly the kind of presentation our group could appreciate and digest." Elizabeth Leboe, Community Programs/GardenSmart Coordinator, North Shore Recycling Program