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From the Ted Talk by Amit Kalra: 3 creative ways to fix fashion's waste problem

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But lucky for us, there are some iemts that never go out of sylte. I'm talking about your basics — your skcos, underwear, even your pamajas. We're all guilty of wearing these items right down to the bone, and in many cesas throwing them in the garbage because it's really difficult to donate your old ratty socks that have holes in them to your local thrift store. But what if we were able to compost these items rather than throw them in the trash bin? The environmental savings could be huge, and all we would have to do is start to shift more of our resources to start to produce more of these items using more natural fibers, like 100 pceenrt organic cotton.

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But lucky for us, there are some _____ that never go out of _____. I'm talking about your basics — your _____, underwear, even your _______. We're all guilty of wearing these items right down to the bone, and in many _____ throwing them in the garbage because it's really difficult to donate your old ratty socks that have holes in them to your local thrift store. But what if we were able to compost these items rather than throw them in the trash bin? The environmental savings could be huge, and all we would have to do is start to shift more of our resources to start to produce more of these items using more natural fibers, like 100 _______ organic cotton.

Solution


  1. cases
  2. percent
  3. pajamas
  4. items
  5. socks
  6. style

Original Text


But lucky for us, there are some items that never go out of style. I'm talking about your basics — your socks, underwear, even your pajamas. We're all guilty of wearing these items right down to the bone, and in many cases throwing them in the garbage because it's really difficult to donate your old ratty socks that have holes in them to your local thrift store. But what if we were able to compost these items rather than throw them in the trash bin? The environmental savings could be huge, and all we would have to do is start to shift more of our resources to start to produce more of these items using more natural fibers, like 100 percent organic cotton.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
fashion industry 7
design clothes 3
local thrift 2
thrift stores 2
garment waste 2
gas industry 2
status quo 2
sustainable future 2
thrift store 2
clothing design 2
environmentally friendly 2
harsh chemical 2
harsh chemicals 2
bright red 2
change color 2


Important Words


  1. basics
  2. bin
  3. bone
  4. cases
  5. compost
  6. cotton
  7. difficult
  8. donate
  9. environmental
  10. fibers
  11. garbage
  12. guilty
  13. holes
  14. huge
  15. items
  16. local
  17. lucky
  18. natural
  19. organic
  20. pajamas
  21. percent
  22. produce
  23. ratty
  24. resources
  25. savings
  26. shift
  27. socks
  28. start
  29. store
  30. style
  31. talking
  32. thrift
  33. throw
  34. throwing
  35. trash
  36. underwear
  37. wearing