IS IT WASTED? OR A NEW OPPORTUNITY? Faced with visa challenges, the asylum seekers prove to be innovators, not victims. Drawing on their resources, they repurpose, recycle and re-create a new state trading bio-fuel via the mid-ocean garbage patches. Teenage Kit illustrates how you can draw a new future as activists turn to science. But what happens in this new world order? About the Author: Although known for There’s a Hippopotamus on Our Roof Eating Cake series, Hazel Edwards writes across genres and has an OAM for literature. Topical issues novels include Fake ID, which was screen optioned and translated into Tamil. Her Australian Antarctic expeditioner experience was relevant for the Wasted? #Clific setting and also the earlier Antarctica’s Frozen Chosen. Her scientific contacts suggested plot twists and checked the manuscript.