Sustainable Supermarkets

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​Sustainable
Supermarkets

​How often do you go to the supermarket?

Do you bring your own bags when you go shopping?

What kind of food do you think people waste the most?

Have you ever seen supermarkets throwing away food?

What do you usually do with leftover food?

Do you use a reusable shopping bag, water bottle, or straw?

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to be criticised strongly​

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to come under fire

to be praised highly

to be ignored completely

to be celebrated widely

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an action that is morally wrong ​

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an unethical act

a virtuous deed

a commendable action

a lawful behavior

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a strong negative reaction by a large number of people​

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a backlash

a celebration

a compliment

a misunderstanding

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a formal agreement between parties​

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a pact

a disagreement

a suggestion

a proposal

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excess; extra; oversupply​

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surplus

deficit

shortage

lack

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to work in a way that hides embarrassing information​

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to operate under a veil of secrecy

to reveal all details

to broadcast personal stories

to share confidential information

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to deal with a problem yourself after others have failed to do so​

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to take matters into your own hands

to pass the buck

to throw in the towel

to wait for help

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the largest part of something​

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the lion's share

the smallest piece

a tiny fraction

the least amount

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More and more people want supermarkets to reduce the amount of plastic waste they produce.

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By 2025, many of the major supermarkets will have stopped using plastic in their in-house products.

• True

• False

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Supermarkets are still denying that plastic packaging can cause damage to our environment.

• True

• False

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Supermarkets are not telling people how much food they are actually wasting.

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• False

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There is a grocer in Berlin that doesn't allow customers to use their own containers.

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• False

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Farmdrop doesn't store large amounts of food and so doesn't produce unnecessary waste.

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• False

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Farmers supplying food to Farmdrop get a small fraction of the price that customers pay.

• True

• False

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The author believes that small shops like Bulk Market and Farmdrop will eventually take over the major supermarkets.

• True

• False

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Two of the things that major supermarkets have been​

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for are the waste of large amounts of​

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food and unnecessary plastic usage in a lot of product ​

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Some supermarkets have ​

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to try and ​

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plastic wastage,.

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criticised

packaging

excess

promised

reduce

praised

minimize

increase

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One supermarket has said that it would get​

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of all plastic packaging from its own in-house brands. Meanwhile, many supermarkets are not very​

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about the exact amount of food that is going to waste and so it's hard for charities to know how to redistribute this surplus​

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rid

transparent

produce

hide

opaque

consume