Chapter one – The Park

One day a nine-year-old schoolgirl called Olivia went to school on an ordinary day – but was it? So, there she was in class doodling on her maths book, the, DING DONG DING DONG, it had turned three o’clock and it was time to go home. Just at that second her best friend Catherine walked up to her and said “would you like to come to the park with me?”
“Oh, yes please,” Olivia replied with a sudden burst of energy.
When they got to the park they sat on the old and rusty bench. Olivia could not keep quiet for one more second, so she opened her mouth and cried: “I have a wacky, crazy, freaky and environmentally-friendly invention.”
“Well, what is it?” Catherine asked.
“OK, I’ll tell you as long as you tell no one. OK, it’s a reused chair, it’s made from reused bottles. So do you love it?”
There was just one word on Catherine’s tongue and that was ‘NO!’ As soon as she let the word out she walked away.
Then Olivia heard a voice from behind her and a shadow peering over, she turned and she recognised – first the red and grey spiky hair, then the clown shoes and then she found her self looking at the big, round glasses and then the white science lab coat.
“You…you…you..you’re Doctor Dave, the famous, wacky, environmentally-friendly, best inventor in the world. You invented chocolate didn’t you?” Olivia said in shock.
“Jamie Oliver made chocolate, but would you like to my assistant?”
“YES, PLEASE,” Olivia answered.
Then all was quiet, until “HEY, you! Yes, you!” Doc Dave shouted across the park while working over to the teenager.
“What?” the teen asked.
“Recycle those cans, don’t just drop them on the floor,” Doc Dave moaned.
“Where can I recycle them?” the teenager cried.

Chapter two – The Letter

The next day there was a knock on the Olivia’s front door, it was Doc Dave. “Hi, let’s go to my laboratory, we have a letter to write.”
So down the road they went, ‘til they went past the park, then turned left, ‘til they passed the speed camera, and got to Doc Dave’s home. When Olivia entered the room she saw red powders, blue liquids and plastic, with cans and even a junk yard for the stuff he recycles himself, to make things like metal.
“So, what’s this letter you’re on about?” Olivia asked.
“The one to the Council,” Doc Dave replied.
“Now then, what should we write?
How about this?” Doc Dave asked Olivia.

Dear Borough Council,
I am writing to you on behalf of the park, the leisure centre and many more places. I will invent, with my assistant, a recycle bin and we will put them in parks and leisure centres. So I demand you let me do it.
Thank you
Yours sincerely
Doctor Dave

“So what do you think?” Doc Dave asked Olivia.
“Good, but how do we make one?” she replied.
Before they could build their invention, they had to post the letter and wait for a phone call, so after they posted the letter they waited and waited until the phone started to ring.
Doc Dave answered the phone, it was the Council lady on the phone. She said: “We accept the offer.”
“Thank you,” Doc Dave cried with a happy voice. “Olivia it looks like we have an invention in our hands.”
Doc Dave started collecting plastic and saws and hammers and even the blue and green liquid. He put everything in order using the alphabet.

Chapter three – The Invention
The time had come for Doc Dave and his trusty assistant Olivia to build and invent, this is what Olivia had always dreamt of.
The first time they tried it didn’t go to well because it blew up and that because Doc Dave put the red powder in and the plastic, but he forgot to put the green liquid in.
The second try….
“Pass me the melted plastic and the sodium salt,” Doc Dave told Olivia. “Thank you”
Doc Dave poured the sodium salt into the mixture with the plastic, he did it right but then he mixed in anti-clockwise, instead of clockwise.
“Will it ever work,” he thought to himself.
Then suddenly a light bulb shined above his head, he had an idea.
“Olivia, I’ve had an idea. Maybe if we both mix the mixture both together clockwise it will work.”
“1,2,3.. mix.” They both said together.
“Now, let’s put it in the mould and let is set for a week” Olivia said to Doc Dave.
They waited patiently for it to mould, but it felt like they were waiting forever.
It was time, the day, the biggie.
The week was over and the mould had now set they took the recycling boxes from the mould. “VOULAAA!!” – they were perfect.
They delivered them to the Council for them to get put into schools, parks, leisure centres and more public places.
Next time Doc Dave visited the park, he saw some children playing football with a Coke can, but instead of leaving it on the grass they picked it up and put it in one of the new recycling boxes.
Doc Dave smiled to himself, it doesn’t take a lot for everyone to do their bit for the environment.

DO YOUR BIT TO SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT OR YOU WILL BE THE ONE WHO GETS A TELLING OFF FROM DOC DAVE!

YOU CAN DO THE THREE Rs - REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE

THE END