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Good news, boss!
Big problems on Perfectomundo!
Perm
See?
They got so much trash it's gonna bust
right through the roof!
He-he-he.
Remember those giant, monster plants you grew the last time
we were there?
Yeah!
We were going to use 'em to take over all of cyberspace!
Yyyyyyyyyyyes!
That's it!
We'll grow a new army of monster plants!
Buzz!
Recall that box of seeds I told you to stash?
Uh, stash?
He, I thought you said trash!
I threw the box in the dump.
Dump
Are you saying that my box of monster-making seeds is at the
bottom of that giant trash heap?
Uh, well, um...yeah.
Has the trash reached the top yet, Waldo?
Not yet, Mayor!
Whoa...oa...oa...oa...
There are still a few inches left.
Oh, Waldo, this is a disaster.
I designed Perfectomundo to be perfect!
How could I have forgotten where to put the trash?
Speaking of 'where to put', where should I put these plants
for the Jubilee?
At this rate, Mary, there's not going to be a Jubilee!
The Mayor's right.
How can we have a party to celebrate our first year
as a cybersite with that growing higher by the hour?
I believe this is your lucky day, Mayor.
Hacker?
At your service.
I'm here to assist you - in your time of need.
But you never help anybody!
Au contraire, Mayor.
That is a gross misconception.
Yeah.
The boss is really a good guy.
With a Master of Trash degree, too.
Oh. I wasn't aware of that.
Ohh, neither was I.
It's true.
As a longtime student of environmental hazards in
cyberspace, I came here as soon as I read the report
in the newspaper.
Don't trust him, Mayor!
He's The Hacker!
Don't be so quick to judge.
If there's one thing The Hacker knows well - it's trash!
You're hired!
Now to find my box of seeds!
Mayor!
Ahhhhhhhhhh!
Stop!
STOP, I SAY!
You're fired!
Wow!
What if that trash makes it all the way to the top?
I'd say that dome is doomed!
Ma-at! This is serious.
Serious and stinky, I bet.
Cybersquad! You must make Perfectomundo perfect again...
...go now! Hurry!
I don't care how you do it, just get rid of it!
Please, we're desperate!
Don't worry, Mayor, taking this trash away is a slam dunk.
Taking it away isn't the problem.
It's the next load of trash, and the one after
that they have to worry about.
Well, that's the trouble with trash,
there's always more of it.
I've got it!
We send the trash to other cybersites!
You know, spread the trash around.
But Didge, that'll just give the problem to someone else.
We can't do that either.
Guys!
Check this out.
Not everything here is trash.
I bet somebody could use this again.
In fact, there's probably more stuff like this in here.
Maybe if we knew what was in the trash,
we could figure out how to get rid of it.
Seems to me there'd be a lot less of it,
if we didn't throw so much stuff away in the first place.
If you mean reduce the rubbish, we've already tried that!
In fact, Waldo wrote a little ditty to remind us
how to do that.
Hit it, Waldo!
Refill your bottles of water, don't buy them new.
Buy toys made of wood, for a much longer view.
Take cloth bags to the market, buy things in bulk.
Use both sides of the paper, no need to sulk.
If you do all these things, and remember them true.
The environment will be grateful.
And thank you, thank you!
Way to go, Waldo!
Awesome!
Yeah!
Hi, guys!
I heard you were here!
Hey, Razz!
Are you here for the Jubilee?
We're here to make sure there is a Jubilee!
Hey, Matt.
I have a little problem of my own.
Can I show you something?
Yeah, sure.
Go ahead.
We'll see if we can figure out what we've got here.
So Waldo asked you to make a sculpture of the Mayor
for the Jubilee?
What an honor.
Yeah.
She'll be really surprised.
What do you think?
It's not quite done yet.
I've never seen anything like this.
You don't like it?
No! I mean yes! It's awesome!
But what if the Mayor doesn't like it?
Are you kidding?
She'll love it!
You really think so?
Do you like it?
Well...yeah.
But it doesn't matter what I think.
I just don't want to let Waldo down.
Hey, the only one you'll let down if you don't finish
it...is you!
You gotta believe in yourself, Razz.
Once you do that, you can do anything.
Any progress?
Not much.
We've still got a mountain of trash to sort through.
We need to know what's here before we can figure out
how to get rid of it.
We're on a tight schedule, you know.
Tomorrow's the celebration.
Don't worry, Waldo.
The Cybersquad will figure out a way to get rid of this stuff.
Right, Matt?
Yeah, sure.
We'll do our best.
I bet you could get rid of half of this trash
by the end of the day!
Can you really get rid of half?
Sure he can.
Matt's the best!
Uh...I dunno...maybe...
One-half of that pile.
Excellent!
Bet you could get rid of more - like six-tenths!
Six-tenths.
Even better!
But- Make it seven tenths.
No! Eight- tenths!
Eight-tenths. Check!
Make it nine-tenths!
You can do it.
Right, Matt?
Uhhhhhhh...I'm sure we can get rid of some of it.
Remember what you told me?
Believe in yourself and you can do anything.
You meant that, right?
Well, yeah.
Definitely.
I believe the amount of reduction agreed to
was nine-tenths.
The Mayor will be so relieved.
Thank you!
Nine
Are you serious?
That's practically that entire trash pile!
This doesn't sound good at all.
Uh-oh! That doesn't sound good either!
OK, let's think.
What do we know?
Not much.
And we don't have much time.
We know that in order to figure out how to get rid of the
garbage we need to figure out what's in it.
But how do we analyze a heap of trash that's too tall to see all
the way to the top?
That's it, Matt!
That's the problem!
That trash heap is too tall!
We need a smaller sample of trash to analyze.
...Like that!
One truckload of trash!
I'm on it, Earthlies!
Over here!
Trash emergency!
Okay, Deedee, you heard the boss.
We gotta go in there and find that box of seeds.
So get goin'.
I'll stand guard.
Waitaminute!
You're the one who put the box in there - you go!
I'll stand guard.
That was over a year ago!
Doesn't count!
You know the one-year rule.
You want me to tell the boss you wouldn't go in?
You would do that to your best friend in all of cyberspace?
Look at the bright side, Buzzy, there might be
an old donut in there.
He-he-he.
Okay, guys, let's see what we've got here.
Check out this bookshelf!
A little dusting and it would be good as new.
Hey, Matt!
Nice pass!
Guess what?
You could definitely reuse this, too.
Just needs some air.
How about this empty jelly jar?
Can this be used again?
I think it can be recycled.
Don't they crush the glass and use it into to make
new glass jars and bottles?
Oh yeah...!
Ew!
Not much we can do with this.
Can't reuse it...can't recycle it.
Reduce...reuse... recycle.
I like it!
But, uh, how do we know what can be recycled and what can't?
Good question.
Let's Gwiggle it!
Hmmmm...donut.
Yeech!
Not even I'm gonna eat that.
Recyclables include: clean paper, cardboard...
...and paper food containers, clean glass bottles and jars,
clean metal and foil and clean plastic containers.
Cool!
Those things are all made of materials
that can be used again.
Here's the plan.
We'll make a separate pile of all the things we can recycle.
How about another pile for things that can be used
as they are?
Like this boidcage.
Ah excuse me can someone get me outta here?
Time out, guys!
There's a whole lot of stuff here.
It's going to be all over the place.
Thought you could use these!
Hey, Buzzy!
You find the box yet?
Not yet.
Wait!
Ah! I found the boss's old teddy bear!
You found Mr. Fluffy?
Ohhhh, Deedee!
I think I see the box!
Here's one more for the reusable stack!
He shoots...
...he scores!
And here's the last one for the recyclables!
Good shot, Inez!
I guess this isn't quite reusable, is it?
Not unless you like really cold, half eaten pizza, ha ha.
Too bad.
It even had pepperoni.
Into the bin of stuff we can't figure out what to do with.
Bullseye!
We can't recycle or reuse a broken brick either.
OK, the sample pile is separated...
and we've got ten full bins of stuff.
So what do we know?
Well...four out of ten bins are filled with things
that can be reused.
So we can take four tenths of the trash to a thrift store
or a charity to be cleaned up and resold.
Or even given away.
And look!
Three tenths of our sample pile can be recycled and made
into something else to use.
But we still got these three bins of trash we don't know
how to get rid of.
Hmm, that's a problem.
We can make use of seven-tenths of this stuff,
but there's still three-tenths left.
Did I hear seven
You did.
Based on what we did here...
We're pretty sure we can get rid of seven-tenths of that trash.
But you promised to reduce the trash pile by nine
Don't worry, Waldo.
Matt won't let the Mayor down.
You're not giving up, are you, Matt?
No!
We'll figure out what to do with the rest of it.
Somehow...
Right, guys?
Absolutely.
The Jubilee is on!
Count on it.
Good!
But remember -the Jubilee is tomorrow.
Wait! Stop!
Oh, dear!
What's going to happen to my beautiful, perfect cybersite?
We're done for!
Da-da-da-Daaa!
We got the seeds!
Yes, yes!
My glorious SEEDS!
I can almost see my army of monster plants now!
WHAT?
These aren't my seeds, you duncebuckets!
You brought me the wrong box!
This is my wig gel!
Guess I'll have to do this job myself...as usual!
I can't take this anymore!
I don't care what you do with the trash!
Just haul it away!
The Mayor's right!
Get rid of it!
But is that really the best way?
I mean, we can't just dump all this trash into cyberspace
for someone else to clean-up.
Good point!
No, we can't do that!
Absolutely not!
We have to take care of it right now!
My thoughts exactly!
Whatever you do...hurry!
Yes. Hurry!
Sorry, Matt.
I didn't mean to put you on the spot like this.
Like I said, Razz.
You can do anything you set your mind to.
We'll find a way to do this.
Look, we're really close.
We already know how to get rid of the trash we can
reuse and recycle.
The problem is the three-tenths of the trash that's left over!
Yeah!
The stinky stuff!
The trash that's left smells for a reason, you know.
Yeah!
'Cause it stinks!
You know why it smells?
Because it's already decomposing.
Composing?
What does trash have to do with music?
No, Didge, not composing...
DEcomposing!
Garbage smells because it's starting to rot.
Ew!
That's disgusting!
Actually, that's a good thing.
Come with me, I have an idea to help you get rid of the last
three-tenths of the trash.
At least some of it.
It's called composting.
All these leftovers are broken down over time
and used as fertilizer.
Hey! That doesn't stink.
Give it time. It will smell a bit.
Now they go on the compost pile.
Can you use old leaves and grass, too?
Sure.
That stuff makes perfect compost.
<SPT! SPT! >
Sorry.
And this is what all those leftovers and leaves turn into.
Nice, rich soil!
How long does it take to get like that?
Anywhere from six months to two years.
But when it's done...
Your compost goes back into the earth to help grow the next
generation of flowers and food.
Cool!
It's kinda like recycling - only using Mother Nature!
Lower, Buzzy...lower...a little lower...
Too low.
Oh, dear...what a mess!
That's the way it is with trash.
It's usually messy.
Yuck!
Someone didn't finish their sandwich.
The good news is, we can gather up the compostables
at home instead of throwing them in the garbage.
This is the last of it!
Toss 'em in!
Great!
That gives us two bins of compostable trash.
What about this?
Not much you can do with that.
Back with the leftovers you go!
Cool!
Not many leftovers left over.
Done!
Sample trash analyzed.
Ten bins full!
Let's see what we got, Matty!
Four tenths of the trash can be reused.
Four tenths reusable.
Check!
Three tenths can be recylced.
Three tenths recycled.
Check!
Two tenths can be composted.
Two tenths composted.
Check!
One tenth is leftovers.
One tenth leftovers.
That's four ...plus three...plus two...
that's nine-tenths!
You did it, Matt!
Nine-tenths!
I knew you'd come through!
Thanks, Razz.
Ech-ech-em!
You guys, too.
Good job!
Thanks.
And we found out only one tenth of the trash Perfectamundians
throw away really needs to be thrown away!
That's all well and good, but how do you expect to divide up
all of this by tomorrow?
We need a small army!
No problem!
What if they clear away all this trash before the boss
finds his seeds?
Hey, boss!
You better speed it up!
Uh!
Mr. Fluffy!
Hello, Mr. Fluffy.. ahhh.
Got it!
My seeds!
Well, guys.
It looks like we found something else for the compost heap!
Compost?
What!
Ahhh!
Ahhh!
Oh no...!!
Whhhhhhhaaaaaa.....
Boss! Boss! Wait for us!
I want to thank all of you for coming on this special day.
And a special thanks to the Cybersquad
for making it possible.
We couldn't have done it without your help!
I think Razz has a surprise for you, Mayor.
Thank you for being the Founder of Perfectomundo.
Oh, Razz.
It's beautiful!
I love it!
One last thing to remember, guys.
All trash is not trash!
To keep Perfectamundo 'perfect,' practice the three R's:
Reduce, Reuse and Recycle!
Oh, and don't forget composting!
Man, he's good!
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!