EP 108Ages 4-10
Usem & Wastem and the Great Pacific Trash Patch
A screen-free audio story about Usem & Wastem, Goops who use and waste everything. Set in the Pacific Ocean.
Play the story · 35:41
Read by Maria Calanchini
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The story
Twins Usem and Wastem carry bags everywhere, one full of useful things and one full of wasted ones. When they spy a human boy in Googlina's kitchen, they grab him and vanish in a cloud of blue fairy dust.
They pop up in the middle of the Pacific Ocean beside a floating island of trash, where a voice calls for help from inside a tangled old fishing net.
The real place: Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Three things to tell your kid after the story.
- 1The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a huge area of the ocean between Hawaii and California where swirling currents collect floating trash.
- 2Most of it is not a solid island. It is tiny bits of plastic, like confetti, spread through the water.
- 3Sea turtles can mistake floating plastic bags for jellyfish, one of their favorite foods.
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