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energy to make and transport than plastic, have less re-use potential and produce methane if dumped in landfill.
"Faced with the question of paper or plastic, the answer should always be (7)_______," says Reuseit.com.
According to a 2007 study (funded by US plastic bag (8) _________), it takes almost four times as much
energy to manufacture a paper bag as a plastic bag. Paper-bag manufacture uses 20 times (9) __________
water as plastic and paper requires more energy to be (10)__________.
Cloth bags are far from perfect. An Environment Agency report this year found that a resusable cloth bag
would have to be taken out 131 times to reduce its environmental (11) _________ to that of a single-use plastic
bag. And despite all our fretting, plastic bag use has actually (12) ________. Rather than pitching paper against
plastic, we really need to change our habits. (13) __________ banning ourselves from buying more than we can
carry loose in our arms, the obvious solution is a (14) ________ on all bags, an economic nudge that (15)
__________ we can't shop less we should at least reuse those bags stuffed under the kitchen sink.
1. ________ falling on forests has killed a lot of trees in the last 20 years.
2. The council is encouraging us to ________ more household rubbish.
3. Factories and vehicles produce a lot of dangerous ________.
4. ________ of the atmosphere has increased over the last 50 years, making the environment very
dirty.
5. The effect of gases in the earth's atmosphere is preventing the earth from losing heat; this is
called the ________.
6. When ________ gases are released into the atmosphere, they rise slowly.
7. The hole in the ________ is getting larger every year.
8. If ________ continues, there is a danger that the polar ice-cap will start to melt.
9. We take all our empty bottles to the ________ so that the glass can be used again.
10. Long periods of drought have brought about the ________ of whole areas of central Africa.
11. Tigers, whales and panda bears are all ________ species.
12. People are worried that soon whales will become ________.
13. We should use fewer ________ such as oil and coal, and look to other energy sources such as
________ and ________.