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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TASK 2

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

Paper bank

Plastic bank

Glass recycling 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)