Recycling

1. generates the environment

2. conserves our recourses

3. reduces pollution and litter

4. reduces acid rain

5. cuts energy costs

6. generates jobs

7. engenders a sense of community pride

8. creates profitable industry

9. provides funds of charity

10. reduces the need for landfill sites

Ex. 8. a) Which fact do you find the most surprising?

b) Which situation needs the most urgent action?

c) Which fact arouses the most optimism?

Factfile

1. In 1990 British consumers threw away 6 million tones of paper, 2 million tones of glass and 35 million worth aluminium.

2. Only 4 % of recyclable material is actually recycled.

3. The estimated annual value of materials which are thrown away in Britain is ₤ 750 million per annum.

4. In Britain there is only one bottle bank for every 14.000 people. In France and Germany the figure is one bottle bank for every 2.000.

5. At the end of 1990 80% of petrol stations sold unleaded petrol. In 1988 the figure was only 4 %.

6. Emissions from lead from petrol fell by more than 50% between 1975 and 1988, despite an increase in petrol consumption of over 7 million tones.

7. 90% of British rubbish is tipped into holes in the ground called landfill sites. There are 5.000 such landfill sites in Britain today.

Ex. 9. Make up a recycling project in group. Think about these questions:

1. What are you going to recycle – paper, plastic, tins, bottles?

2. How can you encourage people to recycle – produce an explanatory leaflet or poster, organize a competition?

3. How are the things going to be collected – a central collection point, volunteer collections, house-to-house collection?

4. How can other people be made to help – form a committee, talk to other students, persuade shopkeepers, tell the municipal authorities?

5. What other events can be organised to help the project – a sale of old books, clothes or records; a sponsored walk, bike ride or run; a collection in the town?

Vocabulary:

to link – связывать

sewage pollution [ ] – загрязнение сточными водами

sinusitis [ ] – образование свищей

to eliminate [ ] – устранять, исключать

significantly [ ] – значительно

vomiting [ ] – рвота

diarrhea [ ] – диарея

itchy – зудящийся

fever [ ] – жар, лихорадка

to suffer from – страдать, болеть

health threat [ ] – угроза здоровью

prompt [ ] – побуждать, незамедлительный

mount [ ] – расти, увеличиваться

Ex. 1. Read the two newspaper articles. Which article was published the first?

1.

Children who play in the sea at Blackpool run more than five times the risk of developing symptoms of sewage poisoning than those who stay on the beach, according to scientists.

Research findings published by a team from Lancaster University today provide some of the clearest evidence to date of the health dangers posed by untreated sewage in sea water.

The university’s Environmental Epidemiology Research Unit interviewed the parents of more than 900 children, aged six to 11, on the beach at Blackpool last summer. In follow-up interviews 10 to 14 days later, parents were asked several questions, including whether their children had suffered from any of a list of 29 symptoms.

After statistical analysis to eliminate the possibility of error, the unit discovered that the 455 children in the sample who had had contact with the sea ran a significantly higher risk of contracting symptoms of disease associated with sewage pollution.

The children who went in the sea were five times more likely to be affected by diarrhea than those on the beach, and three times more likely to suffer from vomiting. Other symptoms included itchy skin, fever, lack of energy and loss of appetite.

2.

Evidence is mounting that Blackpool townspeople are at risk from illnesses linked to sewage pollution of the sea, even if they do not swim in it.

According to a Blackpool GP, increasing numbers of resident are suffering from gastro-intestinal illnesses and sinusitis, which he believes are caused by sewage pollution.

Worry over the health threat has prompted Lancashire Country Council to sponsor a study by Lancaster University into the connection between ill-health in children living on the Fylde coast and pollution.

The GP, Dr Martin Lucking, said that in recent years, increasing numbers of his patients have suffered gastro-intestinal illnesses and sinusitis during periods of strong on-shore winds bringing moisture from the sea.

This happened in 1998 and late on in 1989. It is unacceptable that this is going on our doorstep.

Ex. 2. a). Work in groups. Write a headline for each article.

b). Compare your headlines. Choose the best ones.

Ex. 3. Are these statements about Blackpool true or false? Correct the false statements.

1. Children are not in danger as longer as they stay out of the sea.

2. Lancashire Country Council carried out a survey into the connection between

ill-health and pollution from the sea.

3. The pollution in the sea is caused by untreated sewage.

4. The major illness that children suffered was diarrhea.

5. Children also complained of headaches.

6. According to DR Lucking, the number of patiens suffering from pollution-

related illnesses has increased recently.

Ex. 4. a). How would you react to the findings of the report if you were a … ?

1. Blackpool parent

2. tourist

3. hotel owner

b). Read the torn out comments from the newspaper. Match each comment with the person who made it.

1. John Hall, Director of Tourism for Blackpool.

2. Louse Ellman, leader of Lancashire Country Council.

3. Dr. Martin Lucking, Blackpool GP.

a). “This is seriously going to affect our trade. The constant sportlight on Blackpool’s beaches means we will pay the price and if you take away tourism Blackpool is nothing”.

b). “We have known since Victorian times that there is a link between sewage and ill-health and I would say it is up to the authorities to prove otherwise”.

c). “The water authority’s proposals are inadequate. We need firm plans for the short term. There is too much anecdotal evidence of people in this area becoming ill. It must be treated seriously”.

Ex. 5. a). Work in groups. What do you think should be done?

b). Write a letter to one of the Blackpool newspapers expressing your point of view.