TOO MUCH PLASTIC-Reading-lesson 15

1. What is happening in the UK that is good news?

• Plastic can be used in clever ways.

• Over 13 billion plastic bottles are used every year.

• There are a lot of clever people there.

2. Which of these sentences is true?

• Roads are made of plastic all over the world.

• Engineers usually make plastic roads in the UK and the USA.

• In the past, roads weren't made of plastic.

3. Asphalt and plastic roads _________

• are not easy to make.

• are better when they are heated to 170°C.

• are not as hard as roads that have only asphalt.

4. Some famous companies _________

• make sports shoes using rubbish.

• throw away fewer plastic bottles than others.

• use six to eleven plastic bottles to make one shoe.

5. The writer says that you can use plastic to make _________

• footballs.

• camping equipment.

• rubbish bins and jewellery.