完形填空Did you throw something away today? The answer for most people would be yes. But where does our 1 go?
It doesn't just sit in the rubbish bin. Every day, 2 come to take the rubbish from our rubbish bins. They put it into a big truck and 3 it to landfills(垃圾填埋场). At the landfill, people sort(分类) the rubbish. They recycle some, 4 some and bury(埋) the rest of it underground. The more rubbish gets recycled, the 5 the environment will be. It means 6 less rubbish ends up in landfills.
So many Chinese cities encourage people to sort out their rubbish 7 throwing it away. Put the food in one bag. Put the plastic bottles in another. And throw them in the right rubbish bins. In this way, we can help 8 a lot of time, money and energy for all of the society.
Many foreign 9 have good sorting systems. So they have higher recycling rates(比率). In Sweden, only 1 percent of household waste 10 in landfills every year. In Japan, people recycle nearly 50 percent of the rubbish.
There is 11 a lot to do when it comes to rubbish sorting in China. People in the country make about 300 million tons of the rubbish every year. 12 they only recycle less than a quarter of it. The rest of it ends up in landfills. Most of it is unsorted. The good news is that many cities are 13 different ways to make things better. Beijing has started a new programme to 14 rubbish sorting. If people sort out their rubbish, they'll 15 points. They can exchange the points for shopping cards!
