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.
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