The Plastic Mountain

 In room five we are learning to describe a moment in time. This week we were doing writing about plastic mountain. We were also using our senses including smells, sights, sounds, feelings and sensations. Here is my writing about the plastic mountain. Hope you enjoy it.

                                 The Plastic Mountain

I’m drowning in an ocean of dirty, broken and really sharp edged plastic bottles. My feet and clothes are getting muddy from working every day under a bridge peeling the labels off plastic bottles that people have thrown away. These bottles making an annoying crackling noise.

If I don’t get this work done I might not eat tonight. We're selling all the green bottles to a scrap dealer for only $100 a month, At least it's something to buy food with. I’m determined to get all the plastic bottles sorted by the end of the day.

It’s terrifying to see all this plastic, and more is flooding the space under the bridge each day. The plastic is endless. if we took a day off it would probably be up to my shoulders, and who knows how tall it will be if we took a week off.

The smells of traffic fumes and the sugary smells in the plastic bottles are awful. And I smell them every day of the week. And don’t get me started on the sounds. People are shouting and cars are roaring.

My younger brother is moaning to me “can we go home yet? Can we eat?” 

“No, we can't. We haven’t finished yet” I replied.

Were both hungry, but I don’t want to annoy mum.

“Ssh!” mum yelled at us. “Be quiet.”

The scrap dealer is here now and we can finally go home and eat our diner. We are so hungry that we don’t have time to get changed. Then we got changed after we have finished eating.

By the next day there’s more plastic than ever and that means more and more labels to peel off. I wish we were in a world with no plastic. I know this is how we get food but isn't there any other way? Why do we have to have this job? People should stop making plastic. Why did people start making plastic in the first place. Lets stop making plastic, starting now!