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475 billion cans of drink are sold in the world every year. What happens to all these empty aluminium cans? Amazingly, a lot of them are recycled! It takes 100 years for an aluminium can to decompose in a landfill. So recycling makes sense. Aluminium doesn't occur naturally. It's made from bauxite in a process called smelting. Producing aluminium is energy-intensive. Bauxite is extracted by mining, which is expensive and creates environmental problems. Bauxite mining harms forests, which affects plants and animals, and the chemicals which are used in the process affect the health of people living there. Recycling reduces the need to mine bauxite. Recycling aluminium consumes only 5% of the energy needed to produce it by mining and smelting. In fact, making one can with recycled aluminium saves enough energy to run a television for three hours! Aluminium is one of the most common materials in modern life. It's the cheapest material to recycle, and can be recycled indefinitely because it isn't damaged by the process. Cans are also one of the easiest things to recycle - new drinks cans appear in the shops only six weeks after recycling! In some countries people pay extra for each can they buy If they recycle the can or take it back to a shop, they get this money back Many places have got special machines where cans are crushed, and you get a ticket saying how many cans you recycled so you can reclaim the money. In Sweden, where this is very successful, 92% of cans are recycled. In Britain, people sell empty cans for charity There are several hundred places that buy cans and then recycle them. Just imagine - if every can in the UK were recycled like this, it would raise over £30 million a year for good causes! 3 Read the text again and answer the questions. 1 What happens to most drinks cans? They are recycled. 2 What is aluminium made from? 3 What two problems about mining this does the text mention? 4 Why is recycling a better alternative to mining? 5 What three advantages are there when recycling aluminium? 4 6 How long is the whole recycling process? 7 What happens in some countries to encourage recycling? 8 How do we know this works well in Sweden? 9 What happens in Britain? 10 Why can you make a lot of money doing this? What happens to cans in your country? Which of the ways explained in the article do you think is best? What do you think is the best way to stop people just throwing cans away? Write four or five sentences.​

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Ответ:

1. What happens to most drink cans?

• They are recycled.

2. What is aluminium made from?

• It is made from bauxite.

3. What two problems about mining this does the text mention?

• Mining bauxite is expensive and causes environmental problems.

4. Why is recycling a better alternative to mining?

• Because it saves a lot of energy.

5. What three advantages are there when recycling aluminium?

• It is cheap, easy, and it can be done indefinitely because it can’t be damaged.

6. How long is the whole recycling process?

• It only takes about six weeks.

7. What happens in some countries to encourage recycling?

• People pay extra for each can they buy, but they get this money back if they recycle the cans.

8. How do we know this works well in Sweden?

• We know that 92% of cans are recycled there.

9. What happens in Britain?

• People sell empty cans for charity.

10. Why can you make a lot of money doing this?

• Because there are a lot of places that buy these cans and recycle them.

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Вот подтверждение из текста:

• 1. "What happens to all these empty aluminium cans? Amazingly, a lot of them are recycled!"
• 2. "Aluminium doesn't occur naturally. It's made from bauxite in a process called smelting."
• 3. "Bauxite is extracted by mining, which is expensive and creates environmental problems."
• 4. "Recycling aluminium consumes only 5% of the energy needed to produce it by mining and smelting. In fact, making one can with recycled aluminium saves enough energy to run a television for three hours!"
• 5. "It's the cheapest material to recycle, and can be recycled indefinitely because it isn't damaged by the process. Cans are also one of the easiest things to recycle..."
• 6. "...new drinks cans appear in the shops only six weeks after recycling!"
• 7. "In some countries, people pay extra for each can they buy. If they recycle the can or take it back to a shop, they get this money back."
• 8. "In Sweden, where this is very successful, 92% of cans are recycled."
• 9. "In Britain, people sell empty cans for charity."
• 10. "There are several hundred places that buy cans and then recycle them. Just imagine - if every can in the UK were recycled like this, it would raise over £30 million a year for good causes!"

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