Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Recycling Plastic Water Bottles - Justin Medvetz


Day 1: It was early morning, and I was all by myself, and I heard the loudest engine sounds coming from above me. I was curious to figure out what it was that was after me. Before I knew it I was sucked up some long tube into a Oil Rig. Before I knew it my slippery oil self was with gallons of other oil, and we were being shipped off somewhere, but no one knew where.

Day 2: We finally arrived to some huge place. It had a lot of lights and was extremely loud and let off a lot of smoke. We were put into the refinery and then I was on a conniver belt, riding throughout the entire factory. I realized that I had been converted into a plastic pellet, instead of my slimy oil state. On the conniver belt I was approaching a dark tunnel. Once I came out of the other side of the tunnel I was a  solid, plastic water bottle. Since I had this new body, everyone seemed to want to touch me. Workers kept spinning me around and placing lids on me. Before I knew it water was being poured right through the center of me! Then I was placed into this huge package with around 24 other bottles. I was getting extremely hot and claustrophobic. I made friends in the package and before I knew it I was being shipped off on a truck. No one knew where we were going.

Day 3: I was woken the next morning by a bunch of movement. I was being picked up by another person. I did not like being lifted because then if I were to drop I could burst. We were placed in a grocery store next to some more plastic water bottles. It was about mid-afternoon and a women came over and grabbed us all! She placed us under her cart and drove off. We later arrived at her home where she unloaded us and carefully placed all of us in different locations in her house. Some of us were in the refrigerator, others were in the basement or in the garage. I could see her drinking some of us and then throwing us away in her recycling bin. It was around 6 when I was kidnapped from the fridge, and violently open and ingested.

Day 4: I had a hard time sleeping last night, I kept having nightmares of me back at the Oil Refinery. But as I came to realize, I wasn't sleeping. This was real life. I was taken again. They were breaking me down and taking me apart and I couldn't figure out why. I was on another conniver belt after being crushed up into so many little pieces. Before I knew it I was going in 7 different directions and being placed in all different types of materials. Part of me was in a shoe, another part made fleece and the last little bit of me was put in a carpet. That is when my days of being a plastic water bottle was over and I was now someones shoe, carpet, and sweatshirt.




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