What do people usually do with their trash in your community?
Trash collectors empty our bins into a huge truck every day. Most of our trash goes to a landfill, but some of it is incinerated (burned), too.
If you _________ old things from the sidewalk you can sell them on the internet!
burn
keep
collect
destroy
To live a zero-waste lifestyle, you have to ________ and compost all your trash.
eat
make art from trash
recycle
melt
a place where the rubbish is buried under the ground
my house
planet mars
cemetery
landfill
using garbage, such as food waste, to grow plants
composing
imposing
composting
proposing
to make something happen
love
cause
plant
destroy
knowing about something
aware
stare
beware
hair
The SF Environment website _______ that if people recycle correctly, the city can reduce landfill waste by 90 percent!
lies
says
reports
jokes
An effective _________ to save the ocean is to reduce the amount of rubbish we produce.
idea
solution
dream
evil plan
Plastic garbage can ________ in the ocean for years and kill birds and fish.
float
party
sail
be sold
to remove dirty or unwanted things completely
clean up
throw stuff on the floor
wish it away
shower
Plastic in the ocean blocks the sunlight and _______ very small sea organisms called plankton.
creates
kills
gives birth to
eats
New approaches to recycling can also help make more people _____ of the problem.
mad
sad
happy
aware
when there is a lot of trash in a particular area (land or sea)
trash domination
trash snowballs
trash bags
trash accumulation
True or False: Some plastic garbage islands are more than 15 meters long
True... uh oh
REUSE: Invent something we can make from plastic trash
example: clothes, bags, hats, toys, boats, hoverboards
