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Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the passage for each answer.
第 1 题
The United States of America leads the world in waste production, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), generating some 200 million tons a year, enough to fill a convoy of garbage trucks stretching eight times around the globe. Each US citizen discards 3.6 pounds a day, almost twice as much as the average German.
The USA produces more ______ than any other country in the world.
第 2 题
We could reduce waste by cutting down on the packaging that surrounds our products: it accounts for one-third of our trash. And we could re-use more of it. “Recycling works, and it makes economic sense even when a material is plentiful,” says Phil Bailey of the National Recycling Coalition in Washington, DC.
Product packaging makes up one-third of people’s ______.
第 3 题
The pacesetter is Seattle. It recovers 45 per cent of its waste compared with a 17 per cent average for the rest of the country. Success is pinned to a “pay as you throw” program: residents who recycle best pay the least for removal of their trash.
Seattle’s waste recovery success is linked to a “pay as you throw” scheme, where top recyclers incur the lowest costs for trash ______.
第 4 题
Yard trimmings and wooden construction debris - two of the largest components of landfills after paper - may be composted at the center and offered directly to consumers. At a recycling center the materials are further sorted and compacted for sale to a manufacturer who makes them into new products.
After paper, yard trimmings and wooden debris are major landfill ______.
第 5 题
In Germany, for example, law-makers were praised in 1991 requiring manufacturers to recycle their packaging they were producing. Many businesses signalled their compliance by marking their products with a green dot.
German manufacturers used a ______ to show they followed packaging recycling rules.
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