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Lool< at the photo and the titte of the text. Why do you think Read the text again. Answer the questions.
the family might be proud of their dustbin?
1 Why is it difficutt to put the [id on the Strauss famity's
d ustbin?
db :.f e Read the text quickly and checl<your ideas. 2 Why did they stop using plastic bags?
-wwffiWffiwffiffire 3 Why do they tal<e their own bags to the shop?

4 Why do they buy toothpaste in aluminium tubes?
5 Why does Verona buy one big pacl<et of crisps every week?
6 Why does the family have a website?
ffi ffiffi MnilEllIlM Complete the phrases from the text with the
verbs below.

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pottution
left-overs
2 sea creatures 6 compost
3 bags 7 waste
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& :.t f Listen to four teenagers tatl<ing about recycling.
The dustbin is full to the
top with crisp packets Match each person with the best summary of their opinion.
and coloured plastic. ln There is one summary that you do not need.
fact, it's so full that it's 1 Ava 3 Charlotte
difficult to put the lid on. 2 James 4 Arch ie
But the Strauss family,
who own this dirty, old a l'm better at recycling than the other people in my family.
dustbin full of rubbish, b My famity takes recycling very seriously and tries to
are very proud of it. Why? reduce the amount of rubbish we produce.
Because it contains all c lf there were more recycting bins in my town, I woutd do a
the family's rubbish for a lot more recycling - but I never see any.
whole yearl d I'm aware of recycling, but I don't think it's very important
and I don't rea[y do it.
Two years ago, Hichard
and Rachelle Strauss e I don't recycle everything, but ltry to recycte when I can -
and their daughter Verona read an article about plastic and that's better than doing nothing.
bags and how they cause pollution and harm sea
m 6b :.f Z Read the speal<ing strategy. Then listen again
creatures. They decided to stop using plastic bags
completely. Now, when they buy food, they reuse their and tick the phrases you hear.
own bags each time. They recycfe as much as they
can - glass bottles, plastic bottles, paperi cardboard,
cans - and:they simply don't buy things if they can't To express your opinion you can use the foltowing
recycle the,packaginS. ffhey buy their toothpaste
phrases: ln my view ... ln my opinion ... The way I see it ...
in aluminium tubes just because aluminium can be
What I think is ... .
recycled.) And they never throw'foodi away - they eat
their leftovers or use them to make compost.
ffi Worl< in pairs. Ask and answer the questions.
At the moment, it's impossible to recycle plastic crisp Use phrases from the strategy box and from exercise 4.
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packets and sweet wrappers and \lerona loves
crisps. lf she bought a packet of crisps a day, she'd 1 What sort of things do you recycle at home?
2 How can peopte reuse or repair things instead of
have to throw away lots of plastic. So she buys the
biggest packets she can find - and each packet lasts replacing them?
for a week! 3 ls there anything else you can do to hetp the
environ ment?
The family are keeping a record of their lifestyle on
their website. They hope that other people will read
it and reduce their waste. lf everyone recycled a bit
more, it would make a huge difference.

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