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)譯文：今天，路邊資源再生回收計(jì)劃已經(jīng)為大多數(shù)美國(guó)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) 譯文：再生資源，包括堆肥處理，從垃圾填埋場(chǎng)和垃圾焚燒場(chǎng)轉(zhuǎn)來的物資，由1990年的3400萬(wàn)噸，增

11、加到1996年的5700萬(wàn)噸：僅6年時(shí)間久增加了67%。 3. filled with recovered materials stacked end to end (para. 2) Stack: pile up End to end:首尾相連 譯文：可設(shè)想將三英尺長(zhǎng)（九立方英尺）盛滿可再生物資的回收箱首尾相接 4.Is recycling worth all the effort? Is profitability the only bottom line? (para. 3) 譯文：資源再生值不值得如此興師動(dòng)眾？盈利率是不是惟一的底線？ 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 譯文：這一視角僅僅關(guān)注，和將所有的廢棄物運(yùn)到垃圾填埋場(chǎng)或垃圾焚燒場(chǎng)相比，單個(gè)的資源再生計(jì)劃如何影響一個(gè)社區(qū)廢棄物管理的

13、總成本。 6. the most successful programs are really cost-effective and indeed, profitable. (para. 4) Cost-effective: Producing the most economical outcome for consumers. (劃算) 譯文：最成功的計(jì)劃，包括許多轉(zhuǎn)化率很高的計(jì)劃，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 譯文： 而這些效益在許多組新的觀察者看來也學(xué)并不明顯，也許會(huì)被城市會(huì)計(jì)和課稅特點(diǎn)所掩蓋 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 譯文：固體廢棄物資源再生的益處也適用于市政府管理的廢棄物以外的廢棄物物流，如工業(yè)廢棄物、建筑和拆遷殘物、農(nóng)業(yè)廢棄物。 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） 譯文： 20世紀(jì)70年代初開始掀起的環(huán)境活動(dòng)和意識(shí)，導(dǎo)致了對(duì)再生資源的新興趣。 Mass destructive weapons 10. increased collection of recyclables i