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In the first act we met Eamon a rock star. Eamon sang "Oops I did it again" a song released by Britney Spears. There was rubbish on the stage so Eamon thought it was okay to throw his own rubbish on the stage. We talked to him about littering and recycling. He picked the rubbish up and put it in the bin and recycling bins. He promised not to litter again and that he would recycle. Eamon's message was that you shouldn't litter and always put your rubbish in bins and recycling bins. If you litter you dirty our environment and may kill animals and their habitat.
Ita One of the most important messages in the show is that you could not pollute at anytime or place. They presented this message in Part 2
One day, a fish was swimming in a river searching for food. As he was swimming through the water, polystyrene started flowing right past him, polluting his home. Next came a "Dairy Milk" chocolate wrapper. More and more household waste floated by, this distracted him. He started to panic and began to swim carelessly through the litter. Before he knew it, he found himself entangled in a plastic can holder. He thought that it was a normal piece of rubbish, so he ignored it. But he was still tangled up, now he knew that he was in great danger. He didn't know what to do, so he began to swim even faster. He tried so hard to release himself. But it got worse, while swimming something appeared in the water. It turned out to be a blue plastic bag. He had accidentally swam into the bag. Air started to run out, he got weaker and weaker, breathing slower and slower. There was no chance for the fish to survive. He sank to the bottom of the river. He died because of our litter!
This highlights the important message of not littering or polluting our water because water is necessary for life.
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In the third part of the show we met Gladys's an elderly woman. She was baking a fruit cake. She had lots of left overs like orange and apple cores and banana skins. She was going to throw them in the bin. Then a volunteer named Gavin told her that she could compost them. All the rubbish in her bin could be composted like kitchen food scraps, uncooked carrots, onions, and potato skins, teabags and stale breadcrumbs. Gavin told her that she could use the compost for her flowers and shrubs. She went off and bought a compost bin. The important message is that many waste organic materials can be composted and re-used as compost in the garden. Tiger worms speed up the composting process because they eat their own weight in food each day.
An interesting part of the show was with Gorgo a dirty bin man who was going to the dump with a bag of rubbish. We stopped him to look through it and found that all of the things in the bag could be recycled. A jam jar went into the glass box, a newspaper went into the paper box, a bit of a box went into the cardboard box, and a bin bag went into the re-use box and a bit of plastic went into the plastic box. We also put a crushed drink can into the drink cans box. He asked a few volunteers up to help him recycle the things. It was great fun but also showed that if you recycle you can save yourself a lot of hard work. Gorgo was very happy and he didn't have to go to the dump at all!
In the fifth part of the show Tommy and Jenny were performing with puppets made from milk cartons. The milk carton were made into robots heads and half way through all the heads turned into one robot's body which turned back into the heads again. The heads then were floating around in space. The puppet's looked like they were made out of more things apart from milk cartons and yogurt drink plastic cartons. Tommy told us that all the puppets used in the show were made from recyclable materials especially paper. Eamon's head was made out of paper mach?. All the puppets looked realistic.
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