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.