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Rubbish Rap
02:49
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Rah-rah-rah rubbish
No we don’t want it
So don’t you drop it
You gotta pick it up, pi-pick it up
Makin’ rubbish all year round
You just throw it on the ground
Leavin’ it behind
No that don’t belong to me
Not my responsibility
Out of sight, out of mind
Pre chorus
But it don’t go away
You can’t blast it into space
Rah-rah-rah rubbish
No we don’t want it
So don’t you drop it
You gotta pick it up, pi-pick it up
Heavy rain begins to fall
Carries plastic waste, all havoc to
The sea
There are seven continents
Made of all the plastic things from you
and me
Let’s be thoughtful, let’s be wise
We can start to minimise
Give some things away
Don’t buy plastic, don’t buy stuff
Don’t you feel you have enough
We have got to change
Overlap
There are oh so many ways
That you can make a simple change
Today
Rah-rah-rah rubbish
No we don’t want it
Not gonna you drop it
We’re gonna pick it up, pi-pick it up
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2. |
Waste Free Wanda
03:49
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Waste Free Wanda x3
Workin’ on a waste free world
I’m nasty good and I’m so neat
I’m like lightning’ on my feet
Wanda’s cleaning up the street
I‘m workin’ on a waste free world
I got hot tips just for you
I can tell you what to do
How to reduce what you use
Help to make a waste free world
What’s your footprint, what’s your game
Being waste-free is the aim
Let’s make our goals all the same
of workin’ on a waste free world
You be slick and I’ll be smart
Let’s go right back to the start
Waste reduction has my heart
I’m working on a waste free world
Here’s a new toe tapping groove
It’s a song to help you move
Into a future bright and smooth
Living in a waste free world
Coz it’s not gonna clean itself
You can’t put it on the shelf
The whole planet needs our help
Let work on a waste free world
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3. |
Wrap Up The Habit
03:12
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Food leftover, gotta be stored
Whats the thing you always reach for?
So convenient, just wrap it round your plate
How much waste did you just generate?
Chorus
Oh wrap up the habit of plastic wrap
You got better choices than that
Wrap up the habit of plastic wrap
You gotta give up
Give it up
Oh, give it up
It can take 1000 years
Before your plastic wrap disappears
Use it once, never twice, then throw it all away
Oh you gotta know that there’s a better way
Chorus
Br
A honey wrap or a silicone lid
Just cover your food up with a plate
Floating clingwrap looks like creatures in the sea
That's not a jellyfish, a jeelyfish, a JEELLYFEEESH
Every piece of plastic ever made
Still exists in some form or shape
Heat food in the microwave, then put it in your mouth
That plastic wrap is messing with your health
Chorus
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Couple of Cups
02:37
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A disposable cup only cost you a buck
That don’t seem like very much
Throw it away, nothin’ seems lost
But what about the real cost
You might think that a couple of cups
Don’t matter to the planet, but it really does
It makes sense to bring you own
Reusable cup or a mug from home
If you’re smart just ask about
You might get a discount
You might think that a couple of cups
Don’t matter to the planet, but it really does
16 billion cups per year
Cannot be undone
But if you bring a reusable cup
You’ll only need the one
You might think that a couple of cups
Don’t matter to the planet, but it really does
It ain’t recyclable
Not compostable
Almost impossible
Disposable cup
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5. |
Stop the bottle
03:27
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Stop the bottle
Single-Use Bottle
Stop the bottle
Single-Use Bottle
Stop the bottle
Single-Use Bottle
Stop the bottle
Single-Use!
You don’t need it! You don’t want it!
The wise man takes his own
You can’t believe it’s more convenient
When it’s messing up our home.
So what about the whales and the dolphins and the turtles
Amount of oil it takes to make a single plastic bottle
For hundred years it stays there, floating on the ocean
Choking up the rivers and the land (we don’t want it)
CHORUS
The Man who make the cola says it’s cool and it’s refreshing (who makes the cola)
But all the plastic bottles make a mountain so depressing
They’ll never go away in your lifetime so I’m stressing
Be the change, start today!
CHORUS
Every time it rains all the rivers meet the sea
Every plastic bottle just end up as new debris
The only thing that’s gonna make the change is you and me
Be the change, start today!
Voiceover chorus:
Hey-ay, whaddaya gonna say?
Ohh-ohhh, whaddaya gonna do?
Hey-ay, whaddaya gonna say?
The choice is up to you!
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6. |
A Million Straws
03:20
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Use your voice
Everybody make your choice
Be the change
Your mind can rearrange
Save our seas
Leave some clean soil for our trees
Just say no
Bag the habit let it go
Oh a million straws
They go out our doors
They go round and round the planet
End up on the ocean floors
And so now’s the time
Throw my hands up I am fine
I don’t need a straw today
I got the planet on my mind
And tomorrow
We’ll need this world tomorrow
So let’s be kind
For just one drink,
Pouring plastic down the sink
To the sea,
Oh but it doesn’t have to be
Think ahead
All the wisdom that’s been shared
Use your mind
Help destruction
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Rule of Thumb
02:44
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Refuse all those things that you don’t need
What you need, reduce where you can
Reusing gets us back onto the road of being clean
Cause Mother Nature needs a helping hand
CHORUS
You gotta refuse,
Reduce and reuse
Rehome, recycle and rot
It’s all up to you
Yeah, you get to choose
You’re sayin’ it’s hard but it’s not
Rehome all those things that you don’t need
Recycle if there’s nothing left to do
Rot what you can’t eat and start your composting today.
Mother nature will eat it up for you.
CHORUS
Br.
It’s not hard (not hard) to make a difference
It’s not hard (not hard) to make a change
It’s not hard (in fact it’s easy)
You just gotta help your mind to rearrange.
CHORUS x 2
It’s not hard
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Anna van Riel
New Zealand's Award winning and independent singer/songwriter Anna van Riel has played at the world highests music festival in the Himilayas, performed the NZ national anthem for 50,000 punters at the Four Nations Grand Final and sung her original works for Prince Albert of Monaco. Anna's favourite and most recent success is winning album of the year in her home town. ... more
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