DOMESTIC WASTE: Essential Vocabulary

The international recycling symbol.

Recycling involves processing used materials into new products in

order to prevent the waste of potentially useful materials, reduce the use
of new raw materials, reduce energy waste, reduce air pollution (from
incineration) and water pollution (from landfilling) by reducing the
"conventional" waste disposal, and lower greenhouse gas emissions as
compared to new items production] Recycling is a key component of modern
waste management and is the third component of the 3 R rule: "Reduce,
Reuse, Recycle"

Recyclable materials include many kinds of glass, paper, metal,

textiles, electronics (e.g., cell phones and computers) and plastics.
Materials to be recycled are brought to a collection center (we say
Ecoparc) or picked up from the recycling containers in the street, then
sorted, cleaned, and reprocessed into new materials.

TASK 1

Think and write the names in English of these pictures. You have a list of
these words at the end of this activity

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After writing the names you'll have to match each of these waste items
with the appropiate recycling container.

Paper bank

Glass recycling

Bank

Plastic bank
Collection center

Garbage container
(regular one)

Cut out the pictures and glue them along with the appropriate recycling
container (Paper bank, Glass bank, plastic bank, batteries buck or collection
center) in your notebook

Which of these products can't be recycled (we throw them to the regular
garbage container)