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Week 17 · Waste · Coming soon

The Waste Detectives

Aarti the aardvark, future-archaeologist, waving hello.

Aarti says

Explorer, this bottle and I are spending the whole day together. I want to know exactly where it goes next.

This mystery unlocks soon

The animation is still being drawn, and this mystery unlocks soon — but here is the whole story as a narrated storyboard. Press play.

Aarti stands at the foot of a huge landfill mound.Storyboard previewScene 1 of 7

Aarti (voice-over)

One day, archaeologists will dig THIS up. What will it say about us?

Aarti (voice-over)

One day, archaeologists will dig THIS up. What will it say about us?

Aarti stands at the foot of a huge landfill mound.

The mystery

Aarti follows one plastic bottle for a whole day and is surprised where it ends up.

New technology

The tracker tag: a sticker that pings its position all the way down the bin lorry route.

What you'll do

Invent a package that leaves no rubbish behind at all.

Your turn, Explorer

This mystery's activity opens with the episode. Meanwhile you can design Chatti's avatar — that one is ready now.

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