Read the passage and fill in the blanks with suitable words.
Follow that trash(垃圾)
People
don't like to talk about trash. Trash is smelly, dirty, ugly, broken, use less
stuff. That's w{#blank#}1{#/blank#}we
throw it out. But everyone knows that trash affects our environment. It can
pollute our land, water and air. So it's important to recycle our trash as much
as possible.
Some
Americans were very interested in recycling and they were curious(好奇的)about what r{#blank#}2{#/blank#}happened to their trash. So, what did
they do？They became d{#blank#}3{#/blank#}and decided to "Follow that trash!"
They took
some items out of their recycling bin and put e{#blank#}4{#/blank#}tags(标签)on
them. Signals would be s{#blank#}5{#/blank#}to
a computer by tags so the people could follow their trash on its journey. They
found that some trash only travelling a few kilometers but some trash travelled
hundreds of kilometers. Some trash was recycled, b{#blank#}6{#/blank#} much of it went into landfills.
Waste
management companies in America think this detective work will be helpful to
them. Getting rid of waste is very expensive and this "trash
tracking" will help them to become more efficient. It will save them time
and money.
However, the
trash detectives say it's a{#blank#}7{#/blank#}important
to reduce the amount of trash we produce. After all, if we produce less waste, we
won't have to worry about where it goes.
