Imagine you are building a new house, but you are not using any new material. A house like this would use construction material like wood and metal from other places. By using old material, you are reusing and recycling material that already exists. If you build your house like this, you are building a house in a way that is friendly to the environment, or eco-friendly.

To reuse material is to use it again; to recycle material is to reuse it, or to find a new use for it. You could get materials to reuse or recycle from old houses being torn down, construction sites, recycling centers, junkyards, and scrap yards. Reusing and recycling can be as simple as buying a used bathtub and putting it in the new house. Or it can be more complicated, like using the metal from old umbrellas to make lighting fixtures. By using your imagination, you can recycle a lot of different things for different uses.

Find a house before it’s torn down and get whatever wood you can for the frame of your new house. You could reuse doors and floors from this old house.

If you live near a beach, you can find driftwood and use it for decoration or the railing of your porch. If you live near farms, you can reuse an old grain silo. A tall grain silo gives you a second floor! If you live near a shipping port, you may find old shipping containers that can make a great existing structure. You can use the bare sides and top as walls and a ceiling. You can then find wooden shipping crates to lay a new floor inside your shipping container.You can stack old tires from a junkyard to make a wall. Another wall could be made out of scrap metal found in scrap yards. The scrap-metal wall would be shiny and look very different from your tire wall.

Can you imagine your eco-friendly house yet? Make sure you think about what kind of house you want and plan it well. Find the right type and amount of construction material. Also, make sure your construction material is clean and safe for reuse. If you don’t plan your eco-friendly house well, you may feel like your house looks more like trash!

What is the best title for the passage?

Imagine you are building a new house, but you are not using any new material. A house like this would use construction material like wood and metal from other places. By using old material, you are reusing and recycling material that already exists. If you build your house like this, you are building a house in a way that is friendly to the environment, or eco-friendly.

To reuse material is to use it again; to recycle material is to reuse it, or to find a new use for it. You could get materials to reuse or recycle from old houses being torn down, construction sites, recycling centers, junkyards, and scrap yards. Reusing and recycling can be as simple as buying a used bathtub and putting it in the new house. Or it can be more complicated, like using the metal from old umbrellas to make lighting fixtures. By using your imagination, you can recycle a lot of different things for different uses.

Find a house before it’s torn down and get whatever wood you can for the frame of your new house. You could reuse doors and floors from this old house.

If you live near a beach, you can find driftwood and use it for decoration or the railing of your porch. If you live near farms, you can reuse an old grain silo. A tall grain silo gives you a second floor! If you live near a shipping port, you may find old shipping containers that can make a great existing structure. You can use the bare sides and top as walls and a ceiling. You can then find wooden shipping crates to lay a new floor inside your shipping container.You can stack old tires from a junkyard to make a wall. Another wall could be made out of scrap metal found in scrap yards. The scrap-metal wall would be shiny and look very different from your tire wall.

Can you imagine your eco-friendly house yet? Make sure you think about what kind of house you want and plan it well. Find the right type and amount of construction material. Also, make sure your construction material is clean and safe for reuse. If you don’t plan your eco-friendly house well, you may feel like your house looks more like trash!

According to the text, all the things below are very important for recycling, except ....

In 1964, media theorist Marshall McLuhan predicted the Global Village, a world where the media would connect everyone. However, McLuhan did not necessarily see this as positive. He recognized that this connection would happen whether we liked it or not. And while some felt that knowing more about each other would be positive, McLuhan responded that there was no evidence that people like each other more the closer they get to each other.

Many believe the global village in the 21st century fosters diversity, allowing people to connect around the globe and share perspectives. It is believed to fuel creativity and innovation. But some also identify some negatives. Just having the ability to communicate does not mean that people will want to. Because the internet permits anonymous communication, it can also fuel tribalism, or loyalty to one's own social groups. Additionally, whomever controls the media and its messages has a major impact on the consequences of the global village.

From the first paragraph, we can see that Mc.Luhan's respond regarding the global village was ....

In 1964, media theorist Marshall McLuhan predicted the Global Village, a world where the media would connect everyone. However, McLuhan did not necessarily see this as positive. He recognized that this connection would happen whether we liked it or not. And while some felt that knowing more about each other would be positive, McLuhan responded that there was no evidence that people like each other more the closer they get to each other.

Many believe the global village in the 21st century fosters diversity, allowing people to connect around the globe and share perspectives. It is believed to fuel creativity and innovation. But some also identify some negatives. Just having the ability to communicate does not mean that people will want to. Because the internet permits anonymous communication, it can also fuel tribalism, or loyalty to one's own social groups. Additionally, whomever controls the media and its messages has a major impact on the consequences of the global village.

What is second paragraph mainly talking about?

But some also identify some negatives. Just having the ability to communicate does not mean that people will want to. Because the internet permits anonymous communication, it can also fuel tribalism, or loyalty to one's own social groups. Additionally, whomever controls the media and its messages has a major impact on the consequences of the global village.

From the paragraph, we know that one of the negative impacts of global village is ....

An ecovillage is a traditional or intentional community with the goal of becoming more socially, culturally, economically, and/or ecologically sustainable. An ecovillage strives to produce the least possible negative impact on the natural environment through intentional physical design and resident behavior choices.

It is consciously designed through locally owned, participatory processes to regenerate and restore its social and natural environments. Most range from a population of 50 to 250 individuals, although some are smaller, and traditional ecovillages are often much larger. Larger ecovillages often exist as networks of smaller sub-communities. Some ecovillages have grown through like-minded individuals, families, or other small groups—who are not members, at least at the outset—settling on the ecovillage's periphery and participating de facto in the community.

It is implied in the text that ecovillage ....

An ecovillage is a traditional or intentional community with the goal of becoming more socially, culturally, economically, and/or ecologically sustainable. An ecovillage strives to produce the least possible negative impact on the natural environment through intentional physical design and resident behavior choices.

It is consciously designed through locally owned, participatory processes to regenerate and restore its social and natural environments. Most range from a population of 50 to 250 individuals, although some are smaller, and traditional ecovillages are often much larger. Larger ecovillages often exist as networks of smaller sub-communities. Some ecovillages have grown through like-minded individuals, families, or other small groups—who are not members, at least at the outset—settling on the ecovillage's periphery and participating de facto in the community.

From the text, we know that there are some aspects which underlies the principle of ecovillage such as ....

Gunung Leuser National Park is one of the richest tropical rainforests in Southeast Asia. Covering up to 7927 km2 and straddling the border of North Sumatra and Aceh provinces, it is one of the last places on earth with critically endangered orangutans living in the wild. This region is also the habitat of other wildlife: Elephants, rhinos, tigers, siamangs, Thomas leaf monkeys, macaques and gibbons are just a handful of the thousands of species found in this unique ecosystem. Together with Bukit Barisan Selatan and Kerinci Seblat National Parks, it is an UNESCO World Heritage Site (listed 2004), a Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra. In 2011 it was placed on a list of world heritage sites in danger.

The park area peaks at 3,404 m with the summit of Gunung Leuser which gave the area its name. Its wide range of ecosystems contains rivers, volcanoes and lakes. This rainforest is immensely biodiverse, hosting approximately 750 different species of animals – more than 200 mammals, 380 birds, 190 reptiles and amphibians. Because of the great differences in altitude and the diversity in soil, the Gunung Leuser National Park also has an enormous wealth of plant species. 45% of all recorded plant species in the West Indo-Malayan region are found in this area. The flora contains approximately 10.000 plant species, including the spectacular Rafflesia Arnoldi and Amorphophallus titanum, the biggest and the highest flower in the world.

Which information is not found in the text?

Gunung Leuser National Park is one of the richest tropical rainforests in Southeast Asia. Covering up to 7927 km2 and straddling the border of North Sumatra and Aceh provinces, it is one of the last places on earth with critically endangered orangutans living in the wild. This region is also the habitat of other wildlife: Elephants, rhinos, tigers, siamangs, Thomas leaf monkeys, macaques and gibbons are just a handful of the thousands of species found in this unique ecosystem. Together with Bukit Barisan Selatan and Kerinci Seblat National Parks, it is an UNESCO World Heritage Site (listed 2004), a Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra. In 2011 it was placed on a list of world heritage sites in danger.

The park area peaks at 3,404 m with the summit of Gunung Leuser which gave the area its name. Its wide range of ecosystems contains rivers, volcanoes and lakes. This rainforest is immensely biodiverse, hosting approximately 750 different species of animals – more than 200 mammals, 380 birds, 190 reptiles and amphibians. Because of the great differences in altitude and the diversity in soil, the Gunung Leuser National Park also has an enormous wealth of plant species. 45% of all recorded plant species in the West Indo-Malayan region are found in this area. The flora contains approximately 10.000 plant species, including the spectacular Rafflesia Arnoldi and Amorphophallus titanum, the biggest and the highest flower in the world.

Which is Amorphophallus titanum (Paragraph 2) in the picture below?

Silimalombu ecovillage

We have a unique traditional Batak farmstay. Silimalombu village (meaning the 5 cows) was formed by my grandparents. Our family’s farmstay is now managed by myself (Ratnauli) and my employees. We farm the natural 300-500 year old mango forest and we grow and make many products on a small scale, mostly for locals. We aim for a sustainable lifestyle, and we’re largely self-sufficient. We manage organic intercultural farming, we use solar panels, waste water management and composting.

We envision modelling a return to appreciating and utilising our land and it’s abundant food supply; more sustainable, healthier and cheaper than the processed food commonly favoured. We look forward to hosting volunteers who want to learn and engage in our farming methods, cooking, nature and community living.

What is the best product from Silimalombu ecovillage?

Recycling is a collection, processing, and reuse of materials that would otherwise be thrown away. Materials ranging from precious metals to broken glass, from old newspapers to plastic spoons, can be recycled. The recycling process reclaims the original material and uses it in new products.

In general, using recycled materials to make new products costs less and requires less energy than using new materials. Recycling can also reduce pollution, either by reducing the demand for high-pollution alternatives or by minimizing the amount of pollution produced during the manufacturing process.

Paper products that can be recycled include cardboard containers, wrapping paper, and office paper. The most commonly recycled paper product is newsprint. In newspaper recycling, old newspapers are collected and searched for contaminants such as plastic bags and aluminum foil. The paper goes to a processing plant where it is mixed with hot water and turned into pulp in a machine that works much like a big kitchen blender. The pulp is screened and filtered to remove smaller contaminants. The pulp then goes to a large vat where the ink separates from the paper fibers and fl oats to the surface. The ink is skimmed off, dried and reused as ink or burned as boiler fuel. The cleaned pulp is mixed with new wood fibers to be made into paper again.

Experts estimate the average office worker generates about 5 kg of wastepaper per month. Every ton of paper that is recycled saves about 1.4 cu m (about 50 cu ft) of landfill space. One ton of recycled paper saves 17 pulpwood trees (trees used to produce paper).

Which can be recycled according to the text?

Recycling is a collection, processing, and reuse of materials that would otherwise be thrown away. Materials ranging from precious metals to broken glass, from old newspapers to plastic spoons, can be recycled. The recycling process reclaims the original material and uses it in new products.

In general, using recycled materials to make new products costs less and requires less energy than using new materials. Recycling can also reduce pollution, either by reducing the demand for high-pollution alternatives or by minimizing the amount of pollution produced during the manufacturing process.

Paper products that can be recycled include cardboard containers, wrapping paper, and office paper. The most commonly recycled paper product is newsprint. In newspaper recycling, old newspapers are collected and searched for contaminants such as plastic bags and aluminum foil. The paper goes to a processing plant where it is mixed with hot water and turned into pulp in a machine that works much like a big kitchen blender. The pulp is screened and filtered to remove smaller contaminants. The pulp then goes to a large vat where the ink separates from the paper fibers and floats to the surface. The ink is skimmed off, dried and reused as ink or burned as boiler fuel. The cleaned pulp is mixed with new wood fibers to be made into paper again.

Experts estimate the average office worker generates about 5 kg of wastepaper per month. Every ton of paper that is recycled saves about 1.4 cu m (about 50 cu ft) of landfill space. One ton of recycled paper saves 17 pulpwood trees (trees used to produce paper).

What is the second step of recycling paper products?

Recycling is a collection, processing, and reuse of materials that would otherwise be thrown away. Materials ranging from precious metals to broken glass, from old newspapers to plastic spoons, can be recycled. The recycling process reclaims the original material and uses it in new products.

In general, using recycled materials to make new products costs less and requires less energy than using new materials. Recycling can also reduce pollution, either by reducing the demand for high-pollution alternatives or by minimizing the amount of pollution produced during the manufacturing process.

Paper products that can be recycled include cardboard containers, wrapping paper, and office paper. The most commonly recycled paper product is newsprint. In newspaper recycling, old newspapers are collected and searched for contaminants such as plastic bags and aluminum foil. The paper goes to a processing plant where it is mixed with hot water and turned into pulp in a machine that works much like a big kitchen blender. The pulp is screened and filtered to remove smaller contaminants. The pulp then goes to a large vat where the ink separates from the paper fibers and floats to the surface. The ink is skimmed off, dried and reused as ink or burned as boiler fuel. The cleaned pulp is mixed with new wood fibers to be made into paper again.

Experts estimate the average office worker generates about 5 kg of wastepaper per month. Every ton of paper that is recycled saves about 1.4 cu m (about 50 cu ft) of landfill space. One ton of recycled paper saves 17 pulpwood trees (trees used to produce paper).

We can make use of the ink after being separated from the paper fibres by doing the followings, except ....

Pollution is the degradation of natural environment by external substances introduced directly or indirectly. Human health, ecosystem quality and aquatic and terrestrial biodiversity may be affected and altered permanently by pollution.

Pollution occurs when ecosystems can not get rid of substances introduced into the environment. The critical threshold of its ability to naturally eliminate substances is compromised and the balance of the ecosystem is broken.

The sources of pollution are numerous. The identification of these different pollutants and their effects on ecosystems is complex. They can come from natural disasters or the result of human activity, such as oil spills, chemical spills, nuclear accidents. These can have terrible consequences on people and the planet where they live: destruction of the biodiversity, increased mortality of the human and animal species, destruction of natural habitat, damage caused to the quality of soil, water and air.

Preventing pollution and protecting the environment necessitate the application of the principles of sustainable development. We have to consider to satisfy the needs of today without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. This means that we should remedy existing pollution, but also anticipate and prevent future pollution sources in order to protect the environment and public health. Any environmental damage must be punishable by law, and polluters should pay compensation for the damage caused to the environment.

Which is not the cause of pollution?

Pollution is the degradation of natural environment by external substances introduced directly or indirectly. Human health, ecosystem quality and aquatic and terrestrial biodiversity may be affected and altered permanently by pollution.

Pollution occurs when ecosystems can not get rid of substances introduced into the environment. The critical threshold of its ability to naturally eliminate substances is compromised and the balance of the ecosystem is broken.

The sources of pollution are numerous. The identification of these different pollutants and their effects on ecosystems is complex. They can come from natural disasters or the result of human activity, such as oil spills, chemical spills, nuclear accidents. These can have terrible consequences on people and the planet where they live: destruction of the biodiversity, increased mortality of the human and animal species, destruction of natural habitat, damage caused to the quality of soil, water and air.

Preventing pollution and protecting the environment necessitate the application of the principles of sustainable development. We have to consider to satisfy the needs of today without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. This means that we should remedy existing pollution, but also anticipate and prevent future pollution sources in order to protect the environment and public health. Any environmental damage must be punishable by law, and polluters should pay compensation for the damage caused to the environment.

What is the last paragraph talking about?