Great Guide Zoo Snooze

By Liana, age 11

Because plastic is produced from byproducts of the gas and oil extraction, it’s a huge money spinner for the fossil fuel industry. The fossil fuel corporations and plastic producers must be taxed so high that it’s not profitable to produce unnecessary plastics but, most importantly, they should be forced to take back all of their plastic waste and made to ‘recycle’ it effectively.

All governments must put a value on the price of plastic waste and rewrite policies to protect nature and us. A truly circular economy would have the producers, who make the plastic, take it back.

Effective recycling would mean that our plastic garbage would have a value, instead of being garbage. We have to start demanding governmental policy change, stop buying stuff wrapped in plastic and, whenever you can, REFUSE plastic.

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On 26 August, the Great Guide Zoo Snooze began. First, we caught the train to the city. There was myself and four other girls from the Menai Girl Guides Unit and, after about half an hour, the Lugarno Guides Unit also joined us on the train. From the train we took the ferry over to Taronga Zoo. That’s when the fun began!

Once we got to the zoo we waited and waited until we got called to walk to the place we were camping. After we set up our camp, it was time to wait again. After that we had dinner, a dance party (that went on for ages). After the party, we watched a movie which was animal themed. The movie was called The Lion King. It was a good movie, but it started raining and we all got wet.

During the night it was still raining and some of the girls got really wet and didn’t have spare clothes, so I had to lend clothes to other Guides. In the morning we all packed up and walked around the zoo. Next, we ate lunch, then around the zoo some more. Finally, we took the train back. It was a really fun experience.