Eco assembly script

RECYCLING ASSEMBLY

For Eco Committee

Nar 1: Welcome to our RUBBISH assembly.

Nar 2: Some say that it's a WASTE of time.

Nar 1: But we couldn't REFUSE to do it!

Nar 2: Any ideas on what it's about?

Nar 3: No, sorry guys, haven't the foggiest.

Nar 1: We'll give you a hint...in our school; we think the three r's are very important.

Nar 3: Um...are playtimes, are friends and are teacher?

Nar 2: Oh goodness gracious me, no that not what I'm talking about!

Nar 1: In our school...we believe you should...

ALL:    REDUCE                 REUSE         And           RECYCLE

Nar 3: Now that really is a waste of time!

Nar 2: Take a seat; I think we will be able to change your mind!

PLAY BEGINS:

(Voice from off stage or wings calls out :)

Joe: Hey Susie!

Susie: (Dejected) Yea...

(Boy runs on stage and catches up with her...)

Joe: Hey, what's wrong?

Susie: Oh, I got a flat tyre, and my chain keeps falling off...This bike is a piece of junk!! I'm just taking it to the tip.

ENTER Mother Nature (in a puff of smoke or cloud of confetti...)

Joe: Wow, who are you??

MN MN: I'm Mother Nature. I'm the spirit of the Earth. I've been really ill lately.

Lucy: What's wrong?? How come you're ill?

MN: Just look at that dump over there for one thing.

Joe: I saw it - Uggh! (Susie nods)

Susie: Oh Yuk!!

MN: People use things once and throw them away. You humans live your lives as if there is a never-ending supply of everything, of me...and when you live like that, you make a lot of waste and pollution. That's what's making me sick.

Lucy: Us? We don't do that.

MN: Yes you do. You all do.

Joe: What's that noise?

Susie: It's coming from that dump...

MN: It looks like piles of old newspaper. They were once trees you know...

Paper 1: We overheard you talking about us. We've been so sad buried here in the dump, just wasted.

Paper 2: We could have been recycled and used again. That saves energy and trees!

Joe: Well, we will help you recycle this stuff!

MN: thank you! You know, it's so easy to recycle.

(uncover recycling box - put newspapers in box )

Lucy: Hey we have one of those boxes - I think dad keeps the tools in it..

Susie: Mother Nature, is there anything else in that dump that could be recycled?

MN: I'm glad you asked. Of course there is.

Joe: How about those cans over there?

MN: Aluminum foil and cans can all go in your recycling box.

Can 1: We cost a lot to make in energy and trees.

Suzie: Does aluminum come from trees?

Can 2: Of course not!!! The trees must be cut down to get to the earth beneath that holds the ore - that's what metal comes from.

Can 3: It's much cheaper to melt us down and turn us into new cans!

Can 2: We've got some friends in that dump that would like to be used again too.

MN: Yes there's some plastic bottles just thrown away

Plastic bottle 1: We've been sitting here for nearly fifty years!

Plastic bottle 2: I heard that if someone had recycled us we could be turned into a toy or even part of a car!

MN: That's right! Do you know lots of big supermarkets recycle bottles already.

Lucy: We can take them to Tesco - we have to go there to get our food after all!

Joe: What about glass bottles?

MN: They can be recycled too!

Glass bottle 1: Thank goodness! We've been here for over five hundred years - we don't rot like other materials!

Joe: That's awful.

Glass bottle 2: Yes, we could have been re-used and then turned into new glass!

Joe: I never knew that re-using stuff was so important.

MN: Recycling does help to save the homes of all the plants, creatures and humans. It is very important, you should go and tell the other humans!

ALL Kids: We will!

MN: I feel a little better now, but I should be going...So many things to take care of...

ALL KIDS: Bye and thank you!

Joe: Well, now what?

Susie: First things first...I've got to fix my bike!

Joe: And I think I'll be finding a new home for dad's tools!