Задание

Put the sentences in the right order to make a text.

  • Bottles are filled with liquid, wrapped, shipped, bought, opened, consumed and discarded.
  • Bottle one ends up in a landfill. As plastics sit there amongst layers of other junk, rainwater flows through the waste and absorbs the water-soluble compounds it contains.
  • Some of these compounds are highly toxic. Together they create leachate, which can move into groundwater, soil and streams poisoning ecosystems and harming wildlife.
  • Bottle two, after months lost at sea, is slowly drawn into a place known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Here some animals get entangled in the mess. They mistake the coloured plastic bits for food.
  • Plastic makes animals feel full when they are not so they starve to death.
  • Most plastics don’t biodegrade which means they are destined to break down into smaller pieces rotating in the sea eternally.
  • Bottle three is brought into a plant where it is squeezed flat and compressed into a block. The blocks are shredded into tiny pieces which are washed and melted so they become raw materials that can be used again.
  • Bottle three is now ready to be reborn as something completely new.