In a small corner of the ocean, in a sea cave, lived an octopus called Adrian. He was a very peculiar animal, because although he was an octopus like all the others with eight tentacles under a large elongated head, Adrian was purple like the violets in a garden, he had spots of different colors on his tentacles and he wore a hat woven from light blue and green seaweed.
Despite his short eight years, he was a vigorous and hard-working octopus. From morning to evening he collected the objects that humans indolently threw into the sea or the things that the waves washed up from the beach. Among them were plastic bags and bottles, glass jars and containers, batteries, tires, broken toys and everything you can imagine, my little friend, and he took them to the caves.
However, one day the caves were filled with garbage. There was no place to put it, because if it was left in the middle of the water or in the depths of the ocean, the fish, jellyfish and all the marine animals would eat it, thinking it was their food. In addition, Adrian had seen the turtles entangled in the plastic bags and had been eating them.seals injured by the nets that fishermen forgot at sea, and thus many fish with stomach illnesses.
-If all humans knew that the ocean and everything in it shape the planet, they would take better care of it and not throw away more trash. What will I do with so much trash? My goodness! More friends will get sick! If only there was a solution… - Adrian mused.
While he was thinking about how to get rid of the waste or where to put it, the ocean of a dense blue lit up as if the moon had exploded and in front of him appeared a sea fairy, the Great Mermaid who looked him straight in the eyes and said:
-Adrian, I am the Great Mermaid and I have seen your efforts to keep the ocean clean. The time has come for you to learn that the solution is not storing trash in caves, but recycling it.
-What is recycling? - asked Adrian, very excited by the presence of the Great Mermaid.
-Recycling is using waste materials over and over again to make new products - answered the Great Mermaid.
-So how will I recycle? Where? - asked the little octopus with wide eyes, as big as two eggs, because he didn't understand what he would do with the garbage from the caves and the garbage floating in the ocean.
– On dry land there are containers of different colors and signs that tell what kind of trash goes in them – explained the Great Mermaid –. That’s where the waste should be left.
"And how will I do it? I live in the ocean. I can't go to dry land because I don't know how to breathe there," Adrian replied, very sadly.
-I will engrave the recycling sign on your chest and from today on you will be Adrian, the Pulpirecicla. You will look for your friends in and out of the ocean, and you will ask them for help - said the Great Mermaid.
-Why did you choose me, Great Mermaid? - asked Adrian with great curiosity.
-You were the chosen one from the day you were born with your colorful spots. Each one of them represents the color of a container where humans recycle. I have come, because it is time for you to teach others to protect the ocean and the entire planet, because the ocean makes the Earth habitable. Without the ocean there is no life on Earth- explained the Great Mermaid, as she moved away through the water. Adrian looked up and the Great Mermaid had disappeared.
At that very moment, a cockatoo sole that was camouflaged in the sands raised its oval body and said to Adrian:
-I've seen and heard everything that's happened here! Now tell me, Adrian, what are you going to do?
-The same as always, but this time I will look for friends to help me, because the success of this task does not depend on one person alone, it depends on many - exclaimed the octopus, while smiling and with great enthusiasm arising from the hope of a cleaner ocean he swam upwards, showing the sign he had on his chest and by which everyone would know that he was the Pulpirecicla.
Text: Alejandra Planet
Graphics: Valeria Planet
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