Ebenezer Scourge-the play!!
Ebenezer – Camille West
Narrator 1 – Charisse
Narrator 2 – Katie P
Charisse Narrator 1: This is the story of Ebenezer Scourge. He was a regular kid at BCS who liked to
hang out with his friends, play football and have fun. He was a popular kid, bright and funny and clever
but there was one problem-he was an eco-bandit
Everyone: dun dun duuuuuun!!
Charisse Narrator 1: He would leave the faucet running while he brushed his teethEveryone: loud gasp!
Kasey Narrator 2:He would pour way too much cereal into his bowl every morning, More than he could
ever eat , then he would just throw the rest awayEveryone: Loud Gasp
Charisse Narrator 1:He woke up so late every day that he missed carpool and then would make his
mom sit with the engine running burning fuel while she waited for himEveryone: Even louder gasp!!
Katie Narrator 2: Worst of all he wouldn’t recycleBen: screams!!
Hannah: What have you got for lunch today Ebenezer?
Ebenezer can of soda, a lunch able, a bag of apples and a chocolate pudding.
Narrator 1: While Ebenezer eats his lunch happily all around him people were recycling and packing
away their Tupperware containers. He didn’t notice a thing.
Ebenezer stands up and goes to the trash can and is about to dump it all in the trash when…
Dorian Kid 1: Stop Ebenezer-why are you throwing all that into the trash can?
Ebenezer: What do you mean?
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Dorian Kid 1: You can recycle that can and the plastic from the chocolate pudding and apple bag
Ebenezer: Re-what? Leave me alone kid, I’m waaaaay too cool to recycle!!!
Kasey Narrator 2: And that was how Ebenezer was every day. He created about 7.5 pounds of trash
every day, which added up to ----pounds of trash per year. He truly was the worst kind of eco bandit.
That night he went to bed without a care in the world but as he snored…..as he snored…. A strange
creature entered his room
Everyone: make oooo noises - enter Mother Earth. She leans over him but nothing happens. She a hems
but nothing happens. She kicks him but nothing happens.
Lexy Mother earth: Hit it boys—(if you like it then you should have put a ring on it-Beyonce)
He wakes up startled.
Ebenezer Who are you?
Lexy Mother Earth: I am mother Earth
Ebenezer Mother who
Lexy Mother Earth Mother earth
Ebenezer What are you doing here?
Lexy Mother Earth: You are an eco bandit Ebenezer Scourge. You are wasteful with my resources; you
litter and don’t take of me. Tonight you will be visited by three spirits who will teach you the error of
your ways. Make sure you listen carefully to them or beware….beware….beware-fades away
Ebenezer That lunch able I had for lunch must have been bad-I’m
having strange nightmares.
Charisse Narrator 1 Later that night another strange creature enters his room. (Two silver trees)
Tree: hem
Kick bed
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Ebeneezer Who are you?
Emily Tree: We are the spirits of the trees
Ebenezer: Spirit of the trees? Boy that lunch able was bad!!Why are you here?
Cloin Because you and others like you are killing us
Ebenezer I’m not killing anything
Emily Yes you are –every time you use and throw away a paper product that means more of my kind
has to be chopped down to make even more paper products.
Colin We provide homes for all sorts of creatures,
Emily: We provide shade and most importantly we make oxygen for the planet.
Colin About 8 million square kilometers of me have been cleared off the planet-that’s about one half of
all the trees on that ever existed .
Emily: At this rate by the year 2030 only ten percent of all the forests in the world will be left.
Ebeneezer That’s awful what can I do
Tree Simple things make a difference like:
Dorian: writing on both sides of the paper,
Jacob: cancel your junk mail,
Dorian when the printer doesn’t automatically print your document problem solve first instead of
hitting print twenty times,
Jacob bring a cloth napkin to school and most importantly of all
Everyone: recycle!!!
Emily: at least 36% of landfill waste is comprised of paper products-think before you trash Ebenezerthink before you trash!!!!
He sleeps
Kasey Narrator 2: A while later another strange spirit enter his room-(I’m a Barbie girl in a Barbie world)
Roman: hem
Shake
Ebenezer Who are you?
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Roman: I’m plastic
Ebenezer What
Roman Plastic: I’m plastic and you picked the wrong day to mess with the ecosystem plastic boy!!
Plastic is one of the most disposable materials in U.S. culture. We throw away our milk bottles, soda
bottles, water bottles, trash bags, grocery bags, product packaging, and more every day without giving it
a second thought. Plastic makes up much of the street side litter found in cities and throughout the
countryside, and it’s rapidly filling up our landfills as well.
Our country’s landfills are closing at a rate of around two per day. The landfill-space crisis is a big
problem in cities, where inner-city trash dumps are often filled to overflowing , and surrounding
communities are unwilling to allow new landfills to come to their neighborhoods.
Nobody is quite sure how long it takes for plastic to biodegrade—it hasn’t been around long enough,
and the first plastics made are still around today. Scientists believe, however, that plastics will take
hundreds of years to degrade fully—if not longer. Plastics as we know them have only been around a
hundred years, and they are already a problem. Imagine five hundred years’ worth of plastics in our
landfills.
Ebenezer That’s awful what can I do?
Roman Plastic There are many simple changes you can make
Dorian: Stop using plastic grocery bags and use cloth reusable ones instead.
Jacob: don’t use plastic water bottles use a reusable container instead,
Dorian don’t use plastic disposable knives and forks bring reusable ones instead,
and most importantly of all:
Everyone: Recycle
Roman: Plastic bottles make up approximately 11% of the contents of landfills. Think before you trashThink before your trash Ebenezer, think before you trash……
Charisse Narrator 1: Later that night yet another strange spirit enter (want be trash)
Ebenezer: Who are you?
Max Trash: trash
Ebenezer And why are you here?
Max Trash To tell you all about me
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Did you know that Garbage or trash is a major form of environmental pollution these days?
If we put all of the solid waste collected in the U.S. in a line of average garbage trucks, that line of trucks
could cross the country, extending from New York City to Los Angeles, more than 100 times
The average American discards seven and a half pounds of garbage every day .Do you know where all
your garbage goes?-Landfills- There are 1,794 landfills in the United States, down from 20,000 in the
early 1970s. The EPA estimates that they will be full in 20 years. Where will we put our garbage then?
Jacob: Many types of garbage take hundreds of years to properly decompose when thrown away.
Dorian: Milk cartons take 5 Years to decompose
Jacob: Leather shoes take 25 to 40 years.
Dorian: Nylon clothes take 30 to 40 years for decomposition.
Jacob Plastic bags decompose in 15 to 1000 years.
Dorian Aluminum cans take 80 to 100 years.
Jacob: Styrofoam anything never decomposes.
Ebenezer; That’s awful what can I do?
Max Trash: Make small changes in your day
Dorian Only put on your plate what you can eat
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Jacob Pack a trash free lunch with reusable Tupperware
Dorian Buy basket lunches instead of Styrofoam lunches
Most importantly of all
Everyone: Recycle
Max Trash: About 90% of the contents of our bins could be reused or recycled.
Think twice before throwing the trash into dustbin. Think before you trash…. Ebenezer, think before you
trash…..
Kasey Narrator 2 The next morning….
Ebenezer: Wow!! I really need to change my ways. I didn’t think that I was doing such harm to the
planet by not thinking and not recycling. If I change my ways then maybe I can encourage other people
to change too, and together we can really make a difference. I’m going to start right now!!
Charisse Narrator 1: He turned off the faucet while he brushed his teethEveryone: claps
Kasey Narrator 2: He poured just enough cereal into his bowl and ate it all with no waste
Everyone: claps
Narrator 1: He woke up on time and was in the car before his mom even turned the engine on
Everyone: Claps
Narrator 2: Most of all he learned to recycleEveryone: Cheers
Charisse Narrator 1 Everyday you now find Ebenezer manning the cans and educating people about
what they could recycle. Sometimes people are rude to him and tease him and taunt him but he doesn’t
give up. He had seen a vision of the future of earth, one that he didn’t like. He knew that changing
people habits would be difficult but that it was too important to give up. Ebenezer has gone from being
and eco bandit to and eco hero!!
Kasey: You can be an eco hero too! It’s not that hard, you just need to make small changes, like using a
cloth shopping bag. Did you know that Americans throw away some 100 billion plastic bags each year? If
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500, 000 kids choose reusable shopping bags instead of plastic for one month, they could stop 7.5
million plastic bags ending up in landfills.
Daniel: Between thanksgiving and New Year the average American household increases its trash output
by 25 percent- that 5 million extra tons of garbage. Wrap your gifts with newspaper or other recycled
gift bags and get your friends and family to do the same. When you receive a gift wrapped in new
wrapping paper, save it for future use. If 500, 000 kids replaced just three sheets of paper with reused
paper or newspaper they would save enough paper to cover 100 football fields.
Mae: Take steps to recycle at home and school. If 500 000 kids recycled just one more pound of trash
each day they’d decrease the amount of waste going into landfills by 2000 tons that’s the same as 325
elephants!!Do you find it hard to separate your trash int0 three categories-paper, plastic and cans?
Think about the people in the Japanese town of Kamikatsu. They recycle their trash into 34 categories in
the hopes of being totally trash free by 2020.
Noah: So why should you all care? Why is it your responsibility? How does it benefit you to reduce reuse
and recycle? Why should you try and make a difference? Because you are all citizens and stewards of
the Earth
Claire: As citizens and stewards of our planet, you are in a unique position to become active agents of
environmental change. You will inherit a world that’s very different from the one your parents inherited.
Climate change; polluted air, water and soil; endangered species; shrinking coastlines; and a rapidly
increasing population are among the many issues that threaten our global environment.
But you can be an agent of change. You can make a choice every day and each choice you make
helps to determine the future of our planet. Our success relies on you:
Make a choice
Take the initiative.
Make a change
And remember- if you like the earth, then you should be taking care of it!
Beyonce song once again: have audience join in
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