Unit 3 recycling

1、L/O/G/O Unit 3 Recycling by Cindy 曾曾 Important words and phrases 1. recycling; compost; landfill; incinerator; divert-diversion (para. 1) 2. stack (para. 2) 3. differ from; diversion rate; insulate; replicate (para. 4) 4. apparent; municipal; peculiarity (para.5) 5. demolition; debris; enhance; sust

2、ainability (para. 6) 6. fad (para. 8) 7. corrugate; scrap (para. 9) 8. surge; diminish; discard (para. 10) 9. densely populated (para. 12) 10. viable-viability (practicability); surpass (para 13) feasibilityContents1234Background Information Pre-reading Questions Language Points ThemeGallery is a De

3、sign Digital Content & Contents mall developed by Guild Design Inc.What is Exposition?What is Exposition? one of four rhetorical modes of discourse, along with argumentation, description, and narration. The purpose is to provide some background and inform the readers about the plot, character, s

4、etting, and theme of the essay/story or motion picture. Narration tells what happened; Description tells how something looked or felt or sounded; Exposition explains something: its properties, functions, structures, etc.Background Information What is Recycling? The processing used materials into new

5、 products to prevent waste of potentially useful materials, reduce the consumption of fresh raw materials, reduce energy usage, reduce air pollution (from incineration) and water pollution (from landfilling) by reducing the need for conventional waste disposal, and lower greenhouse gas emissions as

6、compared to virgin production. 3-R Concept Reduce, Reuse, Recycle waste hierarchy.Household recycling What CAN go into the recycling binGlass bottles and jars Aluminium cans Steel cans Paper, newspaper and magazines Cardboard Liquid paperboard (milk and juice cartons) Plastic bottles and containers

7、with the numbered recycling symbolsCurbside RecyclingAs the title indicatesLandfill also known as a dump or rubbish dump a site for the disposal of waste materials by burial and is the oldest form of waste treatment. incinerator An incinerator is a furnace for burning waste. grassroots the common pe

8、ople as constituting a fundamental political and economic group Pre-reading Questions 1. Use some figures to describe the success of recycling. 2. The profitability of recyclingBenefits of recycling: Economic and environmental benefits Benefits from solid waste recyclingHistory of Recycling Recyclin

9、g before the mass production Recycling between WWI and 1960s Recycling in the 1970s Recycling in the 1980s Recycling in the 1990sInfluence of Recycling Experience of cities and towns, e.g. Ann Arbor, MichiganLanguage NotesToday, curbside recycling collection programs reach the majority of the Americ

10、an population. (para. 1)译文：今天，路边资源再生回收计划已经为大多数美国人所接受。 2. Recycling, including composting, diverted 57 million tons material away from landfills and incinerators in 1996, up from 34 million tons in 1990- a 67 percent increase in just 6 years. (para. 1) 译文：再生资源，包括堆肥处理，从垃圾填埋场和垃圾焚烧场转来的物资，由1990年的3400万吨，增

11、加到1996年的5700万吨：仅6年时间久增加了67%。 3. filled with recovered materials stacked end to end (para. 2) Stack: pile up End to end:首尾相连 译文：可设想将三英尺长（九立方英尺）盛满可再生物资的回收箱首尾相接 4.Is recycling worth all the effort? Is profitability the only bottom line? (para. 3) 译文：资源再生值不值得如此兴师动众？盈利率是不是惟一的底线？ 5. This perspective focus

12、 on solely , compared to the alternative of sending everything to（para. 3） Perspective: opinion, point of view Alternative: a thing that you can choose to do or have out of two or more possibilities: E.g. find alternative means of transport 译文：这一视角仅仅关注，和将所有的废弃物运到垃圾填埋场或垃圾焚烧场相比，单个的资源再生计划如何影响一个社区废弃物管理的

13、总成本。 6. the most successful programs are really cost-effective and indeed, profitable. (para. 4) Cost-effective: Producing the most economical outcome for consumers. (划算) 译文：最成功的计划，包括许多转化率很高的计划，成本低廉，并且有盈利。 7. Many of these benefits might not be apparent to casual observers, might be clouded by munic

14、ipal accounting and tax peculiarities（para. 5） casual: happening by chance. Eg. a casual encounter= a chance encounter 邂逅 Cloud: to make something unclear Peculiarity: characteristic 译文： 而这些效益在许多组新的观察者看来也学并不明显，也许会被城市会计和课税特点所掩盖 8. The benefits from solid waste recycling also apply to waste streams ot

15、her than those managed by municipalities (para. 6) Apply to: make practical use of sth 译文：固体废弃物资源再生的益处也适用于市政府管理的废弃物以外的废弃物物流，如工业废弃物、建筑和拆迁残物、农业废弃物。 9. The surge in environmental activism and awareness that began in the early 1970s led to a new wave on interest in recycling. （para. 11） 译文： 20世纪70年代初开始掀起的环境活动和意识，导致了对再生资源的新兴趣。 Mass destructive weapons 10. increased collection of recyclables i