Waste Management Booming
Several sculptures made from cans, tires and plastic bottles
It was in 2018,when President Xi Jinping emphasized the importance of trash classification,
Besides the efforts made by the government, many companies are entering the trash separation and recycling market. Huazhan Environment,
1. When can plastic bottles be left outside the door?
A.On Wednesday. | B.On Thursday. | C.On Friday. |
A.Disappointed. | B.Frustrated. | C.Confused. |
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2. 做法介绍;
3. 一点感想。
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Waste Classification
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4 . If you live in Shanghai, you might have to take a "lesson" in sorting garbage, as the city recently introduced new garbage-sorting regulations. It's now required that people should sort garbage into four categories, namely recyclable, harmful, dry and wet waste. However, if people fail to sort their garbage properly, they can be fined up to 200 yuan. More cities are introducing similar regulations, following the practice in Shanghai. By the end of 2020, garbage-sorting systems will have been built in 46 major Chinese cities, including Beijing and Shenzhen, reported People's Daily.
According to a study by the Policy Research Center for Environment and Economy, under the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, over 90 percent of the public believe that garbage sorting is important for the protection of the environment. However, garbage sorting is still a big problem in China. Only 30 percent of participants said they think they are adequately sorting their trash, the study noted.
According to Xinhua News Agency, it's partly because many people lack the willingness to sort their own waste, In the past. Some previous garbage regulations didn't give clear fines for people who failed to sort garbage. "It's a must to have a legal guarantee to promote garbage sorting." Liu Jianguo, a professor from Tsinghua University, told China Daily. He also added "the importance of the new regulations in Shanghai is to change the past voluntary action into compulsory action for everyone.
Aside from China, many other foreign countries have also introduced garbage-sorting regulations. In Japan, waste sorting has become a basic survival skill, reported Xinhua. There is a fixed time for disposal of each kind of garbage and littering can result in high fines and even jail time. In Germany too, people are asked to sort waste into specific categories, reported HuffPost. For example, in Berlin, people have yellow bins for plastic and metals and blue bins for paper and cardboard.
1. What can we learn from paragraph 1?A.All the cities use the same regulations as Shanghai. |
B.Shanghai works as a pioneer in garbage sorting. |
C.Poisonous waste belongs to four categories in sorting. |
D.People will be fined not less than 200 yuan. |
A.Not all the public attach importance to garbage sorting. |
B.Garbage-sorting system have been built in 46 major cities. |
C.People may be put in prison because of littering in Germany. |
D.People aren't fined clearly if they fail to sort garbage now. |
A.The sorting action should be changed from compulsory to voluntary. |
B.He thinks highly of the legal regulations in garbage sorting. |
C.There is a growing concern over garbage sorting worldwide. |
D.Legal guarantee is a must to promote garbage sorting. |
A.Regulations Are of Great Importance |
B.Shanghai Puts Garbage-sorting Into Practice |
C.Cities Get Serious About Waste |
D.Garbage Is Hard to Recycle Appropriately |
5 . Germany is the leader of the world’s waste-recycling race. The country has quite a detailed way of sorting their waste – down to the color of glass waste, the type of paper, the separate bin for metals, etc.
Here below are what you should know about Germany’s waste sorting system:
● You are expected to gather your waste in your apartment/housing area’s local public garbage bins.
● There are commonly several types of public garbage bins available in the German’s apartment/housing area:
● Blue bin –– for paper and cardboard
● Green and white bin –– for glass, different bins for differently colored glass, not available for holiday decorations and lights
● Yellow/orange bin –– for plastic and metals
● Brown bin –– for goods that can be changed naturally by bacteria into substances that don’t harm the environment, like leftovers, fruit and vegetables
● Gray/black bin –– for everything else that can’t be recycled such as used cat litter and animal waste
● Some items don’t belong in these public garbage bins. Items like used batteries, electronics, unused paints, and lights must be returned to the special agents/locations so they can be properly recycled. Other items such as clothes, shoes, and oversized rubbish and furniture are advised to be donated or sold.
● There’s this thing called Pfand in Germany, a certain part of the price for a bottled drink that you get back if you send back the bottle to certified shops. German law requires shops over a certain size selling bottled drinks have a Pfandruckgabestelle, or place for bottles with deposits. These bottles usually made of glass or plastic will be refilled. Of course, there’re strict health regulations.
1. Which bin should the abandoned pet food be classified into?A.The blue bin. | B.The grey/black bin. |
C.The brown bin. | D.The green and white bin. |
A.By giving it away to those in need. | B.By placing it in a specific location. |
C.By returning it to special agents. | D.By donating it to a Pfandruckgabestelle. |
A.Ensuring the cleanliness of refilled bottles. | B.Encouraging consumers to return bottles. |
C.Reducing the use of non-recyclable bottles. | D.Having shops reuse plastic or glass bottles. |
大部分赞成 | 1. 减少污染,保护环境; 2. 方便回收。 |
少部分反对 | 1. 垃圾量大,分类困难; 2. 不清楚如何分类。 |
你的观点 | 1. …… 2. ……(至少两点) |
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参考词汇: 回收 recycle
Ladies and gentlemen,
Recently our class had a discussion about sorting waste.
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That' all. Thank you!
1. Where do Indonesians put their garbage?
A.In the front of their houses. |
B.In the public garbage cans. |
C.In the official garbage bags. |
A.Yellow. | B.Blue. | C.Gray. |
A.Their price depends on the type of waste. |
B.They are provided by the government for free. |
C.Different districts have different official garbage bags. |
8 . Open an app at your smart phone and scan the code bar (二维码) on the garbage can. When you throw garbage into the garbage can, it will show the weight of the garbage and the points you can get from doing so.
In some cities, a variety of multifunctional smart garbage cans are being put into use. In Beijing, for example, a smart garbage can is equipped with an LED screen, which not only shows national policies on garbage classification but also shows the correct steps for garbage sorting. It can also calculate the weight of the garbage and the accumulated points one can get. They can be traded for some articles of daily use.
Garbage disposal is a small issue that involves everybody each day. However, it is also a big issue.
A.The good habit of garbage classification can improve the living environment. |
B.Over 200 million tons of garbage is produced each year in some cities. |
C.It will affect China’s transformation towards green development. |
D.Such a way of handling garbage has appeared in some cities. |
E.It is no wonder that residents cheered for their presence. |
F.Another kind of garbage can is even smarter. |
G.Garbage sorting has been a new fashion. |
Waste Management Booming
Several sculptures made from cans, tires and plastic bottles
It was in 2018,
Besides the efforts made by the government, many companies are entering the trash separation and recycling market. Huazhan Environment,
10 . In rich countries like America, the absence of professional waste-pickers presents a problem. The general public is not very good at sorting rubbish. Households and businesses serviced by municipal waste-management providers may actually have got worse at sorting in the past 20 years, says Peter Keller of Republic Services, America's second-biggest waste management firm, which runs Newby Island in San Jose.
Citizens of rich countries, where almost 100% of municipal waste gets collected, take such services for granted - unless the collectors go on strike (罢工),as happened in the Belgian city of Ghent in early August, leaving streets in a stink (恶臭) for days. In some industrialized nations, increasingly, residents are charged based on volume (known as "pay-as-you-throw") To encourage sorting, such schemes often exempt recyclables.
The volume of recyclables has reached 1,400 tons a day, a lot by American standards, says Mr. Keller. That should come as no surprise. After all, inhabitants of the San Francisco Bay area pride themselves on their recycling ability. San Francisco boasts a recycling rate of 80% one of the highest of any rich-world city. San Franciscans may therefore be shocked to learn that a lot of them, as Mr. Keller puts it, “aren't very good at it"
Two possible reasons account for Mr. Keller's remarks. The first is that many people do not know what is recyclable. Beer bottles and soft-drink cans are, he says. Egg cartons and magazines are not, for there is not market for the materials of which they are made. Some things are recyclable on their own, but not when combined, such as "paper" cups lined with plastic film. It is hard to blame consumers for feeling increasingly puzzled, he admits
The other problem is that residents only have to separate recyclables from non-recyclables Cans, bottles and papers are all thrown into one bin. This mix can, to some degree, be sorted at plants like Newby, enabled by clever technology which uses optical sensor;(光电感应器) and magnets to separate materials automatically. Anyway, these was no match for humans when it came to sorting.
As the volume of recyclables increased in America and Europe, the quality of recycled output decreased because everything was mixed in together. This did not trouble materials. recovery facilities (MRF) operators so long as they would offload their increasingly impure stock abroad. Then China announced it would not accept any plastics or carboard, and American waste-management companies have been struggling to find what to do with their poor-quality waste.
1. According to the passage, the biggest problem in rich countries caused by lack of professional waste-pickers is that ________.A.waste collectors often go on strike regardless of people's needs |
B.no one teaches people how to tell apart recyclable and non-recyclables |
C.waste sorting by machine is far from perfect so far |
D.citizens fail to deal with waste sorting properly |
A.make no charge for | B.set aside |
C.fully expect | D.set the standard for |
A.More advanced waste sorting machines will be launched (推出) as soon as possible. |
B.San Franciscans are not informed that there is no need to recycle egg cartons. |
C.Recycling ability is not all about separating recyclables from non-recyclables |
D.It's hard for San Franciscans to change their recycling habits in the new times |
A.the reason why MFR is not worried about poor-quality waste |
B.China's new policy to keep foreign rubbish out |
C.efforts to teach residents how better to sort their rubbish |
D.the components (成分) of the mixed waste in America |