unit 6 lesson 22. what is thrown away as waste at your home?
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What is thrown away as waste at your home?
White pollution
Can you imagine how much waste is thrown away in China every year?
BRITAIN CHINA
Cans 7 billion 7 x 22 billion
Plastics 0.7 million tons million tons
Metal 0.4 billion tons million tons
Food o.63 million tons million tons
Glass 1.05 million tons million tons
The paper from…
84 million trees billion trees
15.48.8
13.86
23.1
1,848
The Throw-away Society
1. Why is rubbish a problem
in western countries?
2. What is the situation like in
China?
Air pollution Water pollution
Nuclear pollution
“ 库尔斯克”沉船核泄露核电站
DEALING WITH WASTE
Fast-reading: Read the passage
quickly and find out the topic
sentence and what kind of waste is
mentioned in each paragraph.
Finish the first column of the form.
Topic sentence:
How to get rid of waste
is a great problem for the
world today.
Read the passage again
carefully and then fill in
the blanks of the form.
Waste mentioned How treated Better ways
waste from _____ ____ ____ into the rivers
____ and piped into rivers or seas
_____ waste ____ ____ into the sea without being _____
taken ___ __ to sea where wind and waves ____ __ ___
_________ not allowed to be ____ __ ___ ____
_____ from people’s homes
thrown into the sea either ___ or ___ from land depending on their _____
______ waste put into ______ and thrown into the ___ ____
______ waste put into __ ___in metal containers
put into containers and ____ __ ____
What has been done for environmental protection?
International organizations:
Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace
Some special laws have been
made in China.
Group Work
What other kinds of
waste /pollution do you
know in our daily life?
What’s their danger?
Group Work
农药
pesticide
电磁辐射electromagnetic radiation光污染 light pollution
氟利昂 Freon太空垃圾space waste
Homework
Make a survey to see how the
waste in your city is treated.
Then write a report and give
your own suggestions on how
to deal with waste better.
