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YouTube Video Contest
Plastic Reduction Heroes Video Contest In our ongoing desire to make the world a better place, we need to share both our information and our concern to bring others along on our quest. This video should be a Show and Tell with a focus on yourself, your friends, your family, your community leaders or even strangers on the street – people who care about our overuse of single-use plastic products. Video message – Use your video capabilities to tell your video viewers about someone (or lots of people) who care about the need to reduce the use of throw-away plastic bags (it’s ok if your person/people also talk about their concerns and actions concerning other single-use plastic containers as long as you don’t forget about plastic bags). Present WHY they care about this issue, WHAT they do because of their concern, and WHAT they hope will come of their actions and concern. Remember, this is SHOW and TELL so don’t have as much of the talking head as video that SHOWS what they’re telling us about what they’re doing. The winning strategy - Make your video come alive with the energy of your subject and the information you share. Leave your viewers moved to take their own action. Video time limit – 30 seconds to 3 minutesWe need your help in creating videos that will inform and inspire others to see the need and make a change for the better. Your passion, your creativity, and your ideas can make a difference. |
Submit Your Video Submit your video response on or before October 30, 2010 to our promotional video on City of Hailey’s YouTube contest site. You can also view submitted videos on this site. Prizes
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How to Enter
- Make a 30 second video that reflects the theme of the competition.
- Review the contest rules and eligibility requirements before you begin so your video meets the criteria.
- Videos can be funny or serious, as long as they focus on the contest theme and promote the message.
- Fill out and send in the entry form and a DVD/CD with your video.
- Remember to set your entry as a video response to our promo video.
- Submit your video response on or before October 30, 2010 to our promotional video on Hailey’s YouTube contest site.
Why no single-use plastics?
- Americans use over 380 billion polyethylene bags and wraps per year.
- An estimated 100 billion of those bags are the free carry-out bags that have proliferated since their introduction in 1978.
- An estimated 12 million barrels of oil are used to make these single-use plastics.
- The amount of petroleum used to make one plastic bag would drive a car about 11 meters.
- Factories around the world churned out a whopping 4-5 trillion of them in 2002, ranging from large trash bags to thick shopping totes to flimsy grocery sacks.
- Americans throw away approximately 100 billion polyethylene shopping bags per year.
- Of those, 1-2% are recycled.
- It takes 1000 years for polyethylene bags to degrade/break down
- Plastic bags don’t biodegrade, they photo-degrade, breaking down into smaller and smaller toxic bits contaminating soil and waterways. They then enter the food chain as animals ingest them.
- Plastic bags clog both our solid waste facilities and storm drains.
- Plastic is the largest source of ocean litter.
- Ocean debris worldwide kills at least 1 million sea birds and 100,000 mammals each year, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association has estimated.
- You must be a resident of Blaine County to enter and win.
- Videos must be 30 seconds to 3 minutes in length.
- Videos must not contain violence, profanity, sex, or direct attacks on individuals or organizations.
- The video must be your own original creation. No copyrighted music, video, or images may be used in the video.
- Videos must not infringe on any third party rights.
- Video submissions must include a contest entry form. This form must provide valid contact information.
- All contestants must provide a CD/DVD of the original video file to the City of Hailey.
- By submitting a video to this contest, you grant to the City of Hailey a royalty-free license to copy, distribute, modify, display and perform publicly and otherwise use, and authorize others to use, your video for any educational purpose throughout the world and in any media.
- The City of Hailey reserves the right to make your video available to the general public from its website and to distribute it to groups and any other organizations interested in showing it for educational purposes, including, but not limited to, on Internet sites, at conferences and events, on television, and other media outlets.
- The city will disqualify any entries it deems to contain offensive material.
- Entries must be received or postmarked by October 30, 2010. Winners will be notified via e-mail and announced on the contest website in November.
- Entrants must agree to these terms and conditions, or the agreement of a legal guardian must be obtained if the entrant is a minor.
- The City of Hailey reserves the right to not select a winner if none of the entries received are judged to be high quality based on the Rules and Eligibility.
- If your video follows the rules and meets the eligibility criteria above, it will be judged by a panel based on creativity, originality, message content, and video/audio quality.
- Information collected from video submitters to Plastic Reduction Heroes Video Contest may be shared, but only if required by state or federal law. The information collected for this contest will only be used to contact video submitters in direct relation to the contest.
- The contest winners' names will be announced publicly, after consultation with the winners and any honorable mentions, as a part of the video contest award recognition process.
- All personal information collected through the contest website will be destroyed within 6 months of the conclusion of the video contest. Any videos posted to YouTube will be subject to YouTube's privacy policy.
Just Bag It! has been funded wholly or in part by the United States Environmental Protection Agency under assistance agreement X1-00J05301 to City of Hailey. The contents of this website do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the Environmental Protection Agency, nor does mention of trade names of commercial products constitute endorsement or recommendation for use.