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"It’s been 15 years since the Producers Guild introduced its Green Production
Guide, and yet convincing film and television productions to think about the
life cycle of their sets and props remains a work in progress.
“A lot of these productions don’t have a plan in place,” says Reese Medefesser,
the reuse coordinator at EcoSet in Northeast L.A.’s Glassell Park neighborhood.
“They need to be off the stages. So what’s the easiest thing to do? They just
get the dumpster,” he says, and everything goes into the landfill.
The PGA’s sustainability guidelines encourage producers to “build in time at
the end of production for a sustainable wrap” and warn “the landfill should be
the last option.” But it’s still a battle to convince productions why money
should be spent to eliminate waste.
That’s where EcoSet comes in. The Glassell Park warehouse isn’t the only place
where sets and props get recycled in Los Angeles, but since 2009, it’s been a
key resource for film, TV, music videos, commercial productions and live events
that want to divert waste away from landfills. Even better, EcoSet’s Materials
Oasis provides a wide array of supplies free of charge to non-profits like
schools and other organizations that can make use of cast-off sets, furniture,
art supplies and assorted props.
EcoSet’s mission is to get productions to consider what will happen to their
materials when the show is wrapped – since everything that needs to be disposed
of comes with an environmental and financial cost.
“We’re an alternative dumpster. Just like you have to pay the dump to throw
things away, that’s all that we are — an alternative stream for the stuff
productions are trying to get rid of,” says Medefesser."
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