Watch this video from the Sierra Club where eco-conscious Hollywood stars walked the green carpet at the 17th annual Environmental Media Association awards last week. The Sierra Club was there and they asked Hollywood stars, which they hated more, plastic bags or paparazzi. You'd think they would pick the photographers who hound them every minute of their lives, but plastic bags are the focus of these stars who say things like,

They're the scourge of our society. I would love to see no more plastic bags anywhere ever again.

Bring your own re-usable bag to the supermarket. It’s a common sense, easy to do habit that we can all get in to that carries with it tremendous benefits for the environment.

Making disposable plastic bags requires energy equal to 4 million barrels of oil a year, while paper bags use up 14 million trees annually. 

Internationally, discouraging plastic bag use already has caught on in parts of South Africa, Ireland and Taiwan, where authorities either tax shoppers who use them or impose fees on companies that distribute them. Paris, Zanzibar and Rwanda are moving to ban plastic bags, while the nation of Bangladesh already does. Furniture giant IKEA is also charging five cents a plastic bag at its U.S. stores.

Watch the video, and then, after hearing the stars voice their opinions, make your own voice heard to your members of Congress.