It’s only 7 am and green LA girl’s trashed! The dirty deed was done by Heal the Bay, which has a new campaign — Trash Your Friends — which the local nonprofit hopes to turn viral. All you gotta do to participate is pick out who you’re gonna trash — whether via their blog, Facebook page, or Twitter profile.

After trashing myself for testing purposes, I of course had to trash Beth Terry, author of the plastic-hating blog Fake Plastic Fish. I entered in her URL and email at Trash Your Friends — to auto-send her a message with a link to what her website would look like if it were, say, the ocean. Behold!

Basically, Heal the Bay’s app loads up any webpage and trashes it with images of plastic bags — until an interactive graphic pops up to show how the webpage owner can do something about this baggy pollution. Yes, there is a “Not my problem, bro” button too — and those who click it get taken to this hopeful image:

Funny, eh? The graphic’s also got more helpful links that’ll go through the problems of plastic bag pollution for the newly trashed, who can then sign onto a petition asking our state lawmakers for a Cali-wide plastic bag tax.

Already feel you’ve signed, like 10 petitions just like this one? Find out more about why it’s taking us so long to ban plastic bags not just at the state level but also at city and county levels — but why L.A. eco-activists are hopeful a ban or tax will happen this year.

[crossposted on Blogher]

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