This video is about recycling
How waste recycling helps our planet – Zero to landfill
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1) In the past, all the waste from animals and people rotted down and turn into
- a) soil
- b) dust
- c) rubbish
2) Plastic was invented in a) ___________ .Nowadays, almost everything we buy: cars, b) ___________ , toys and food, is either made c) ___________ , or wrapped d) ___________ plastic of some kind. Plastic takes hundreds of years to e) ___________ .
3) On land , rubbish that isn’t recycled goes into enormous pits called:
- a) rubbish areas
- b) landfills
- c) bins
4) As the rubbish rots, it produces lots of a) ___________ called methane. Methane is what is known as a b) ___________ gas. Too much greenhouse gas changes the world’s c) ___________ and makes it d) ___________ .
5) What happens to wildlife when one plastic bag splits into lots of pieces?
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6) Can glass bottles start fires?
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7) Envirohub is a a) company / landfill in Denver which sorts and recycles commercial wastes from shops, b) ___________ , factories and other businesses, First of all, there is a machine that tumbles the rubbish to remove all the c) water and gas / soil and dust which gets turned into a fuel called Refuse Fuel product or d) RDF / RFP for short. Then, it separates plastic from e) glass / paper and card products. In another line, a very powerful magnet sorts iron and f) ___________ from everything else. Another machine removes all the other metals such as g) ___________ .
8) a) Paper / Plastics / Metal is / are melted down so it can be made into other products.
b) Plastics / Paper / Metal is / are recycled into tissue such as toilet roll and hand towels.
c) Metal / Plastics / Paper is / are recycled into new products such as carrier bags.
Card is shipped to d) ___________ for recycling.
9) Be careful with old a) ___________. When they start to decompose, b) ___________ chemicals leak out. Take them to your local waste recycling site and put them in the c) ___________ bin provided.
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