This story is told from the perspective of a bottle encouraging recycling. It explains that bottles come in many shapes and sizes, containing various drinks. When finished, bottles are often thrown in the trash. However, bottles want to be recycled so they can be used again to make new things like balls, shoes or slides. The bottle explains that recycling involves putting plastic bottles and cans in special yellow containers so they can be brought to a factory and made into new products instead of trash. It asks everyone to help bottles by putting them in recycling bags and bringing them to the yellow containers so bottles can be reused and help the Earth stay healthy.

1. El cuento del Envase Vacilón
The story of nice bottle

2. Hello friends! I am going to tell all something very important, so make sure your
ears are open really, really wide…Are they open?...OK, well listen very carefully

3. On our planet, there are many things: trees and rivers, people, flowerpots and
elephants, clouds, rocks, sparrows, socks and bottles. Do you know what I am?

4. Look at me very closely…I´m a bottle! And a very beautiful and elegant bottle at
that!

5. There are many, millions and millions of bottles of diffrent forms… some are quite
strange: we are rectangular, circular, with short or long necks, tall, fat, skinny…

6. In addition, we have writing on our chests and backs showing our names and what
we contain! Juice, water, soap, cologne, soda, milk…and many other things.

7. Oh! I almost forgot: For what we contain, we have written in very small letters,
something important that we should always, always read and never forget:
EXPIRATION DATE!

8. But wait! We have a problem, my friends, that we need to solve. When people finish
what we have stored in our belly, they throw us in the trash and mix with the
leftovers of potatoes, lettuce, dirty napkins, and fish scraps… It smells

9. Bottles don´t want to be trash, we want… We want… See if say it...without making a
mistake.. We want to be recycled, that´s it, recycled and… in this way we can be
used again.

10. Reclycling. Have you heard of this word before? Should I explain it a little? Well
here it goes… This word has somethig magical: To recycle is to re-use something
that we thing can not be used and throw in the trash

11. I´m giong to explain this clearly and slowly. Listen carefully! In our streets there
are yellow containers that are for throwing away light bottles, in other words,
plastic bottles and cans.

12. After throwing us in this special container, a truck brings us to a factory where we
are made into beatiful new thigns… In this way we stop being trash and we are able
to be used again. And… being recycled, we can be converted into a ball, a pair of
shoes, or a big fun slide.

13. But we have a ploblem. Do you know what it is? Its´s that… we cannot bring
ourselves to the container alone.

14. We must be brought by kids, grandparents, moms and dads, teachers, artists,
plumbers, waiters…Everyone, everyone has to put us in a bag, only for bottles, and
brind us to our special container with the yellow top where we meet all our friends.

15. So without kicking and screaming, we ask you, see us in the kitchen, in the
refrigerator, or in any others place, always remenber that if you recycle us, we can
be used again.

16. In this way we are ableto help the Earth to be stronger and healthier… without
trash as beatiful as possible, and its all thanks to this magic thing that we have
learned today: RECYCLE!

17. Fin

18. Los dibujos de esta presentación han sido
coloreados por los alumn@s de 6º de Primaria
del CEIP Al-Yussana
La banda sonora es una adaptación original de
Alberto de Paz Mora