Rob and Cath discuss plans to discourage people from using and wasting plastic carrier bags and to think more about the environment.
This week's question: Approximately how many plastic carrier bags are used worldwide every year? Is it:
a) 500 million
b) 500 billion
c) 500 trillion
Listen out for the answer at the end of the programme!
Listen
Plastic carrier bags
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Vocabulary
- campaign
a set of activities planned to achieve something, such as social or political change
- resource
here, a valuable and useful product
- criticism
the expression of disapproval of someone or something
- biodegradable
something that decomposes or breaks down naturally without any special treatment
- compulsory
something that must be done
- financial levy
a sum of money that you pay in tax
- landfill sites
a place where a large amounts of waste materials are disposed of
- to wean
to gradually make people stop doing something or using something
- behaviour
the way people or things act, function or change
- environmentally friendly
a caring effect on the natural world, such as plants, animals and the atmosphere
- ethos
set of ideas and attitudes
