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Skills

Reading

1 Read the text and answer the questions.

Did you know? Each year in Europe, about 100 million new mobile phones are bought and there are
about 85 million old phones lying in cupboards in people’s homes. What a waste!
The average
family in Europe
produces about In the UK there are lots of copper. They are taken out and reused
a ton of rubbish organisations that recycle mobile in jewellery, copper pipes or new
a year. About phones. Some of these work with mobile phones. The plastic is reused
twenty percent schools. Schoolchildren can hand in in traffic cones or printer cartridges.
(in volume) of this their old mobile phones and, in return,
Phones for Reuse and Repair
waste is plastic. the school receives some money. The
Most of the food phones are then recycled. Mobile phones are very expensive and
and drink we buy They separate the phones into three in some countries in Africa and Eastern
in a supermarket Europe, people cannot afford them.
groups: phones for reuse, phones for
is packed in Phones are sent to these countries and
repair and phones for recycling.
plastic. All of they are given out or resold cheaply.
the electronic Phones for Recycling Check out mobile phone recycling
and electrical
There are some valuable materials in on the internet and see if there is a
appliances we use
mobile phones such as gold, silver and scheme near you.
such as fridges,
mobile phones and 1 How many mobile phones do Europeans buy every year?
laptops contain
2 How many old phones are lying in cupboards in people’s houses?
plastic. Plastic is
3 Why do schools organise phone recycling?
very difficult to
4 How are the phones recycled?
get rid of.
5 What happens to the phones for reuse?

2 Work in pairs and discuss the questions below.

1 How many mobile phones have you had in your life?
2 What did you do with your old mobile phones?
3 Do you think it’s important to have the most modern phone or laptop?

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