The key answer of exercise 5
The key to exercise solutions in chapter 14 - What a load of rubbish! for the textbook Outcomes Pre-Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley from National Geographic Learning
Question
Read the article on page 127 about supermarket shopping and the environment. Find out four things you shouldn’t buy. Explain why.
Answer
- New Zealand kiwi fruits – flown a long distance, creating carbon dioxide / packaged in polystyrene, which is hard to recycle
- Bottles of water / cans of cola – have to mine tonnes of rock to get the aluminium for cans / transport costs
- Small bottles / small boxes of cereal – use more material than large ones
- Meat (beef and lamb) – animals produce natural gas that causes global warming / inefficient way to get food energy
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