6/24/2023 0 Comments Space funeral font broken![]() ![]() However, it’s not always easy to know what the best way to help is.Īnother expert, Professor Monic Sun, believes that focusing only on recycling may not be the best idea. The public at large – meaning most people in the world, rather than just some of them – are concerned about the increase in plastic waste and want to do something to help. ![]() These are made directly from fossil fuels like crude oil or natural gas - major sources of carbon dioxide and climate change.īut consciousness raising of this issue is having an impact. The main problem comes from virgin plastic - original, unused plastic containers. Now, professor Geyer is an American and he uses 'raise' as a noun. Professor Geyer says there has been a raise in consciousness about this problem – meaning that people are being told about an unfair situation with the aim of asking them to help change it. Workers who process recycling are often exposed to dangerous waste materials which can harm them. But at the same time I don’t see yet any real action that would make things better because while all of this is happening the virgin plastic industry is actually increasing its production capacity. There’s been a real raise in consciousness which is fantastic and I’m really glad that now it seems the public at large is really interested in this issue and appalled and wants to do something about it, wants to change it. The BBC World Service’s programme The Inquiry spoke to Roland Geyer, a professor at the University of California about the current situation. Although nowadays people are recycling more, the use of plastic isn’t decreasing at the same rate. ![]() That sounds like a lot of waste! I’ll say a) 280 kg. On average, how many kilograms of household waste were generated per person in the UK last year? Was it: In fact we are creating more household waste than ever. This has created major problems for countries in the West who traditionally relied on others to process their recycling waste.Īnd the problem isn’t going away. But they too are now sending much of the scrap back, arguing it is contaminated and it is harming their own environments. Other countries like Indonesia and Vietnam took over China’s waste processing role. That included waste sent over from Britain. With more and more household waste being either incinerated – that’s burned - or being buried underground, we’ll be asking - is the recycling system broken?Ĭhina used to accept 55% of the world’s plastic and paper scrap – another word for unwanted waste - or in other words, rubbish. I seem to have more and more plastic packaging each week! Actually, that’s the topic of our programme. I’d forgotten to take the recycling bins out before the rubbish collection this morning. This is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English. Note: This is not a word-for-word transcript Highlighted as being especially important drawn attention to Transcript ![]() Short, easily remembered phrase, often used to advertise an idea or product Original, unused plastic containers before anything else is done to it– made directly from crude oil or natural gas Most people (in the world), rather than just some of themĭevelop awareness of an unfair situation, with the aim of making people want to help in changing it Listen to the programme to find out the answer. With countries shutting their doors to foreign recyclable waste and a lack of processing capacity in Western countries, is the recycling system broken? Neil and Georgina talk about the excessive reliance on recycling rather than reducing the use of plastics and they teach you related vocabulary along the way. ![]()
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