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How Can Your Department Help Out?

On any given day, there could be anywhere from one standin to 300, 600 or even more background artists. Times each of them by a few bottles of water (or plastic cups if there is a cooler) and soda cans and coffee cups. Not to mention the food items often provided by crafty on heavy background days that are packaged in bulk plastic bins and paperboard boxes. Extras also often bring in personal newspapers and magazines to read during downtime that are left lying around at wrap. FaERI Tip: Background, bring a water bottle from home to use with the water coolers. FaERI is looking to merchandise coffee mugs to sell that Extras can keep with their personal items in holding and use over and over.	Background
The film used in the cameras comes packaged in cardboard boxes. Plastic containers from monitor wipes.	Camera
Everyday, catering buys bulk food to feed the entire crew, which produces alot of empty boxes that usually end up in the trash. Bulk items, such as ketchup, tuna, sauces, mayonaise, come packaged in recyclable metal and plastic containers. As do the juices and milk bottles and cartons set out for breakfast.	Catering
Supports, braces and flats can be reused on one film many times to create new sets, and if not damaged or overused can potentially be sold to other upcoming productions. If that isn't possible, local schools theater programs, or other organizations may be able to use the building materials after wrap. There also may be facilities nearby that specifically recycle unused grade A wood.	Construction
Similar to all the packaging from our household food consumtion, most of the trash coming from craft service is recyclable. Individual water and juice bottles, soda cans, yogurts, milk and other coffee additives all come in plastic, aluminum or recyclable cartons. Tea, hot chocolate, granola bars, donuts, cookies and cereals come in paperboard. Peanut butter, jellys, fruit, bulk candy, pretzels and food trays create alot of empty plastic containers. Grocery shopping (if not using canvas bags) also produces a pile of plastic bags.	Craft Service
Boxes that lights of all sizes are packaged in. Plastic storage bins when they crack.	Electrics
Commercially purchased creams, powders and products usually come in plastic packaged in paperboard. As are facial tissue boxes.	Makeup
Every day, on location, colorful paper signs are posted to direct cast and crew to holding, set, bathrooms and catering. These can be reused until needed to be thrown into a recycling bin. Empty paper towel and toilet paper rolls can be tossed in too.	Locations
Boxes containing allergy medicines, bandaids, gauzes, ointments and bottles with aspirin and other medicines.	Medic
Paper printed out to create badges and IDs, boxes for shipping specific ordered items in.	Props
Empty 5 gallon buckets. Used paint can be donated as is, or poured together and used by local theaters as slop paint. Boxes from bulk paint, brushes, supplies.	Scenic
Paper: pages and pages of old, unrevised script pages and notes.	Scripty
If the sound department isn't using recharchable batteries, they go through alot, and often they can be recycled, or at least properly disposed of.	Sound
Boxes and jugs from motor oil, antifreeze and windsheild wiper fluids. Newspapers.	Transpo
Wire and the plastic hangers from stores, hundreds of oak tags, detergent bottles, Wet Ones bottles, static gaurd aerosole cans, shoe boxes, garment bag boxes and hanger boxes. Real lint removers instead of the sticky-peel kind are great alternatives. FaERI Tip: On days when there are background that have no continuity with future shoot days, downloading pictures into an organized file system instead of printing them out saves alot of paper, ink and money!	Wardrobe