Recycling Hunters 

eTwinning Project

A book of stories about Recycling

    In a village in northern Greece, there lived a family with six children: Marios, four years old, Eleni, six, Philip, seven, Aphrodite, nine, Odysseus, thirteen, and Artemis, the oldest, fourteen.

   One Saturday, when they didn't have school, they set off for a walk in the forest.

The Six Brave Siblings

    But when, after a while, they reached a remote part of the forest, they were surprised to see a factory!

    They approached very carefully and, through a small, unguarded door, they went inside. They walked quietly and soon they saw a door that said:

"WARNING, DANGER!"

They opened it and went inside.

   "THIS AREA IS BEING MONITORED"

and a CCTV right above them! At the same time, they heard heavy and hurried footsteps. The children immediately hid behind some barrels. 

    But Helen, because she was allergic to dust, suddenly sneezed loudly! The children froze! The footsteps were getting closer...

    Then Aphrodite showed them a small ventilation opening that she had discovered behind them. They just fit!

    The children ran quickly towards the forest.

    But in the forest, a thick, strange mist had spread, which smelled bad. Aphrodite noticed that the mist was coming from a tall factory chimney. The sound of vehicles was heard. A line of trucks approached, filled with containers of more chemicals. But where was little Marios? 

    They looked around in fear left and right. Marios emerged from the mist holding a dead crow in his hand. Then Helen showed them the river. They approached and saw that the water was greenish-yellow and dead fish were floating on the surface. They immediately realized that the destruction of the forest had already begun.

    They ran home and told their parents everything. But they didn't believe them. The children insisted so much that they finally managed to get them to go and see it for themselves. So they went and were shocked.

     Immediately, the parents organized a meeting of the entire village at the Town Hall. The children also spoke about what they had seen. The Mayor and all the residents decided to call the police and the television channels. And so it was.

    After a few days, the Court's decision came out. The factory had to close and be demolished, and the owners had to go to prison for 15 years for environmental destruction.

    The names of the six children were written in the newspapers. The children became famous and their parents were proud of them.

   The children were very happy. Because of them the village and the forest were saved.

   This collaborative story was written on 12-1-2024 by the Writing Group of the students of the 5th grade of the Primary School of Kamena Vourla, Greece. 

Teacher and coordinator, Vasiliki Pappa

   The sight of dried  trees in the forest horrified me. Theleaves were complete lydried. Not a single anima lor piece of gren grass was left. When I ran to wards the water's edge, the dirty look of the soiland the dead animal corpses made me sad. 

   The sky was gray and the air was so polluted it was impossible to   breathe. When I reached the river, it was flowing pitch black, which I wish I hadn't seen. I couldn't breathe anymore. My heart start ed toache. I felt like I was drowning. My eyes started to darken and I woke up with a start. 

    What  kind of a terrifying dream was that? But was what I saw really a dream? Wasn't it possible for this to happen to us in real life? When I thought about these, I was once again horrified. What were we, human beings, doing to our one and only world? İn to the  atmosphere.

    The effect of global warming was in creasing  day by day as were leased gren house gases. I realized how badly people weretre  ating the world and what the conse quences would be. It was necessary to take action immediately. First, I had to take the precautions I had to take in dividually.

     I was careful not to waste water while was hing my face and hands and brushing my teeth.

In stead of pouring the left over oil from my mother's french fries down thesink, I took it to there cycling center.I turned off the unneces sarylights.

     We agreed with my mother that she would run the dishwas her only after it was fully loaded.

Then I decided to raise awareness of the people around me. I started with my friends. 

    At school, I gave in formati

on about disposing of waste batteries through recycling rather than land fill. 

    My friend sand I worked voluntarily to sortand collect waste. We made speeches to en  courage people to be tolerant, understand in gandpeaceful. We explained that wars can destroy the world. 

    We explained that we need to use our resource sefficiently for a livable world and that the reareprecautions weneed to take to protect our selves from the possible conse quences of global warming.

    Our hope was renewed in the work we did with my friends and we continued to  work with the dream of a green, clean world.

HOCA AHMET YESEVİ SECONDARY SCHOOL

ECE ÇAKIR

          JOURNEY OF GARBAGE

      Ayşe was so happy that day.Her teacher gave her a very nice homework. They would make a Money box from waste ful materials in their home.

     Ayşe became so happy when she learned that the things she thought are useful.

     Then she collected all the waste ful items in the home. That was a very beautiful Money box . 

     Using all the sethings, made her very happy .She also protected the nature by recyling and had a Money box.

             ZEYNEP KIVRAK  

    MİRALAY HALİT BEY PRİMARY SCHOOL

RECYCLING TEAM

     One day, Ali wokeup in the morning, washed his hand sand face and went to breakfast.After breakfast, he got ready to go to school.He went out and went to school.Hearrived at school and the lesson started.

    The teacher came and their topic that day was recycling. Their teachers started to explain.Children said that recycling is very important because thanks to recycling, we can reuse thing ssuch as glass, paperand plastic.

    And he continued: In this way, we will not wastet hemand prevent them from being remade.

"And so the trees won't be cut down again, kids," he said, and when the lesson was over, he said, "You too can set up a recycling group if you want."

    After the lesson, Ali and his friends formed a recycling group. Then ext day, they prepared and brought boxes for paper, glass, batteries and plastics.And every one started recyclin gafter that.

   When the boxes were full, they took the boxes to the recycling centerand handed them over to the authorities there.So they unders tood the importance of recycling.

Emine ÇAT 23 Nisan Primary School/DÜZCE

    WE ARE AGAINST GLOBAL WARMING WE ARE COMMITTED TO RECYCLING

     Once day,  Hary and Jimmy were at school, they learned from their teacher that garbage thrown on the ground harmed the atmosphere. They thought about hocgarba get hrown on the ground would harm the atmosphere. 

     They asked their teacher for a research paper on thist opic. When they got home, they saw a documentary about global warming on TV. In this documentary, it wasex plained that the poles were melting and animal habitats were damaged. They wanted  to do something to prevent global warming. For this, they collected in formation on the internet. 

     Together they decided to create an eye-catching poster. They chose the slogan of the poster: "Let's not throw garbage on the ground, let's protect nature."  

        They decorated the poster with photographs. hile they, they saw the garbage on the ground in then  eighborhood. They decidedto expand this business and spread it through out then eighborhood. When they came to school, they told this to the principal.  

   The school principal said that he could turn the poster in to a brochure and reproduce it. Then the principal asked Hara and Jimmy to go house to house and distribute the seleaflets in then eighborhood.

       As Hara and Jimmy went from house to house, that police stopped the man dasked what they were doing. Hara and Jimy, who  could not speak dueto their fear, were taken to the policestation. Later, his parents were called to the policestation. 

  The situation reached the school principal, who explained the in cident and corrected it. The reupon, there gional police chief went to Hary and Jimy's homes, congratulated the man dapologized. When he left, he took a bicycle with him for each of them.

Mehmet ÇETİN 

TOZKOPARAN SECONDARY SCHOOL

     It wasa nice Sunday morning Ahmet and his friends were playing in the  play ground.They  were happy and having a wonderful time They saw one of their friends, Yusuf . He was coming by running. He was very excited  and shouting ’’  My friends !my friends!’’

     Ahmet was worried about him. He said: What happened? Why are you excited ?What is the problem?

Ahmet started to tell every thing . I was near the lake .I saw the dead fish on the lake . I got sad for them.We must do some thing.

Yusuf : Yeah , I can understand you because the climate is changing Some People  don’t care the enviroment ,they throw the garbage out . Every where is full of waste materials, bottles, jars, chemicals materials, cans,,,

Selda said : You  are right. We must do our best for preventing it.

Okan:I fwe don’t do any thing, our earth will be worse.

Nilay: Why don’t  wepick up the garbage on the lake?

Derya: It is a good idea! but I think it is better to start picking up the garbage in the play ground then we can go to the lake .

      All the children started to clean the play ground , picked up the bottles, cans, plastic bags . They went to the lake.There were lots of bottles , and  plastic materials on it . Every body was working .They were very happy because they were trying to rescueall  animals in the  lake.Finally they picked up the litter.They were all tired .

     One of the kids asked: What are we going to   do with them? Where are we going to throw this garbage? 

Yusuf: We will seperate  them in to  different bins so we will use them again.Recycling is important for environment.We can recycle a lot of materials suc as plastic, glass, metal,paper.

Ömer: Wow! It is very interesting.Let’s start ! 

The children started sorting the waste materials.They put them into different bins.

They were very tired at the end of the day.It was late . They went to their home.There cycling hunters had completed their mission and they were very happy to do some thing good.

Çakırlar Primary School

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