Sen. Sally Harrell (D-Atlanta) won the Gold Telly Award for a video promoting her bill to ban single-use plastics in the state. | Facebook/Sally Harrell Georgia Senate District 40
Sen. Sally Harrell (D-Atlanta) won the Gold Telly Award for a video promoting her bill to ban single-use plastics in the state. | Facebook/Sally Harrell Georgia Senate District 40
Georgia Sen. Sally Harrell won an award for a video promoting legislation she introduced that would ban the use of plastic foam products and plastic bags in the state.
Judges for the Telly Awards chose Harrell's video as one of two 2021 gold winners in the Online General-Green/Eco Friendly Category.
"We won a Gold Telly Award! Our 60-second video was one of about 12,000 entries from all 50 states and 5 continents alongside work from some of the most respected advertising agencies, television stations, production companies and publishers from across the world," Harrell said on Facebook.
Harrell introduced SB 434 in February 2020 prior to the COVID-19 shutdown to ban the use of single-use plastics including plastic foam containers and plastic grocery bags.
To support this effort, District 40 officials alongside Harrell's friends produced the video, “Ban the Styrofoam and Single-Use Plastic Bags.” Harrell submitted it for a Telly Award under the Online/Eco-Friendly category she said on Facebook.
The Telly Awards honors distinction in video and television across all types of video platforms, the organization said on its website.
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