Crossover Stories for the Earth

by Jerry Tong Kai Wei

With these family-friendly crossover stories, everyone is going to learn a thing or two to save Mother Earth. From environmental issue addressing to small changes, these stories are really fit to spread the word and adopt good habits for nature. This is for the ones that need to know about the environment and what can be done to preserve it.

2. Erase your E-Waste

Crossover Environmental Stories for Earth

Part 2: Erase your E-Waste

It was a hot summer afternoon in Shido Itsuka's house, along with several friends to accompany him for a sleepover party. Gatchmon, Jibanyan and Knuckles have come to stay in his home, as they were ready for any kind of entertainment for them.

Shido had left the three to watch the newest anime programme "Masamune-kun's Revenge" and they can barely feel the stress at all, not knowing that the electronic TV that they were watching was running out of electricity, and the batteries were included inside it.

All of a sudden, the TV stopped broadcasting. The three friends were very shocked to look at this, so they called out to Shido. But Shido had went out with Kotori, so they have to think of another way. They checked the TV until they found something that was not right: the batteries were weakened.

"Drat!" scowled Gatchmon. "What should we do with them?"

"I don't know," replied Knuckles. "Maybe we should trash them or burn them to the ground!"

Soon the two friends went outside and took out the weak batteries along with them. "Shall we burn them or trash them?" Jibanyan asked.

"I say we trash those batteries!" Gatchmon answered. He and the other two took the batteries to the nearest compost bin and ready to throw, but they did not notice someone who saw what they are doing.

"DON'T DO IT!" someone shouted, jolting them. It was Tohka Yatogami, and she noticed the two were trying to chuck batteries into the bin.

"What's wrong with us?" Knuckles retorted, "These batteries are useless to us, so we are trashing them right away!"

"Don't you know what will happens when throw batteries away?!" Tohka warned sternly. The three friends started paying close attention to her, as they were attending a lecture. "When you throw away weak batteries (especially rechargeable ones), they can cause harm to the environment!"

"How?" the three friends asked her.

"Look, when you throw away weak batteries they release harmful chemicals like cadmium, lead, mercury, lithium and others into the soil, and also into the water! These chemicals can not only damage the environment, they can also be hazardous to our health too! Do you even know the feeling of having a salmon from the polluted river caused by trash batteries?" Tohka warned them.

"We're gonna be sick after that!" Jibanyan answered.

"What will do then?" Gatchmon asked.

"Just take them to a recycling center, I will take you guys there." Tohka said as she took the lead. The three then put away their batteries in the recycling center and felt relieved. Shido was never going to know what happened to the TV. They soon set off to find a new set of batteries that could be rechargeable and environmental-friendly, as in order to save energy.