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From the Ted Talk by Leyla Acaroglu: Paper beats plastic? How to rethink environmental folklore

Unscramble the Blue Letters


These kidns of products are everywhere. By identifying alternative ways of doing things, we can actually start to innovate, and I say actually start to innovate. I'm sure everyone in this room is very innovative. But in the regards to using sustainability as a parameter, as a criteria for fueling systems-based solutions, because as I've just demonstrated with these simple products, they're participating in these moajr problems. So we need to look across the entire life of the things that we do.

If you just had paper or plastic — obviously reusable is far more beneficial — then the paper is worse, and the paper is worse because it weighs four to 10 times more than the plastic, and when we actually compare, from a life cycle perspective, a kilo of plastic and a kilo of paper, the paper is far better, but the functionality of a plastic or a ppaer bag to carry your griecoers home is not done with a kilo of each material. It's done with a very small amount of plastic and quite a lot more paper. Because functionality diefens environmental impact, and I said earlier that the dgireenss always ask me for the eco-materials. I say, there's only a few materials that you should colleptmey aviod. The rest of them, it's all about aiipoptclan, and at the end of the day, everything we design and produce in the economy or buy as consumers is done so for function. We want something, therefore we buy it. So bikenarg things back down and delivering satlmry, elegantly, sophisticated stunoilos that take into consideration the entire system and the entire life of the thing, everything, all the way back to the ectoaixtrn through to the end of life, we can start to actually find really innovative solutions.

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These _____ of products are everywhere. By identifying alternative ways of doing things, we can actually start to innovate, and I say actually start to innovate. I'm sure everyone in this room is very innovative. But in the regards to using sustainability as a parameter, as a criteria for fueling systems-based solutions, because as I've just demonstrated with these simple products, they're participating in these _____ problems. So we need to look across the entire life of the things that we do.

If you just had paper or plastic — obviously reusable is far more beneficial — then the paper is worse, and the paper is worse because it weighs four to 10 times more than the plastic, and when we actually compare, from a life cycle perspective, a kilo of plastic and a kilo of paper, the paper is far better, but the functionality of a plastic or a _____ bag to carry your _________ home is not done with a kilo of each material. It's done with a very small amount of plastic and quite a lot more paper. Because functionality _______ environmental impact, and I said earlier that the _________ always ask me for the eco-materials. I say, there's only a few materials that you should __________ _____. The rest of them, it's all about ___________, and at the end of the day, everything we design and produce in the economy or buy as consumers is done so for function. We want something, therefore we buy it. So ________ things back down and delivering _______, elegantly, sophisticated _________ that take into consideration the entire system and the entire life of the thing, everything, all the way back to the __________ through to the end of life, we can start to actually find really innovative solutions.

Solution


  1. major
  2. kinds
  3. extraction
  4. avoid
  5. designers
  6. paper
  7. application
  8. breaking
  9. smartly
  10. groceries
  11. solutions
  12. completely
  13. defines

Original Text


These kinds of products are everywhere. By identifying alternative ways of doing things, we can actually start to innovate, and I say actually start to innovate. I'm sure everyone in this room is very innovative. But in the regards to using sustainability as a parameter, as a criteria for fueling systems-based solutions, because as I've just demonstrated with these simple products, they're participating in these major problems. So we need to look across the entire life of the things that we do.

If you just had paper or plastic — obviously reusable is far more beneficial — then the paper is worse, and the paper is worse because it weighs four to 10 times more than the plastic, and when we actually compare, from a life cycle perspective, a kilo of plastic and a kilo of paper, the paper is far better, but the functionality of a plastic or a paper bag to carry your groceries home is not done with a kilo of each material. It's done with a very small amount of plastic and quite a lot more paper. Because functionality defines environmental impact, and I said earlier that the designers always ask me for the eco-materials. I say, there's only a few materials that you should completely avoid. The rest of them, it's all about application, and at the end of the day, everything we design and produce in the economy or buy as consumers is done so for function. We want something, therefore we buy it. So breaking things back down and delivering smartly, elegantly, sophisticated solutions that take into consideration the entire system and the entire life of the thing, everything, all the way back to the extraction through to the end of life, we can start to actually find really innovative solutions.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

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life cycle 6
environmental folklore 3
complex systems 3
find ways 3
environmental impacts 2
environmental impact 2
intuitive framework 2
paper bag 2
net environmental 2
process called 2
called life 2
natural environment 2
carbon molecules 2
consumer goods 2
food waste 2
crisper drawer 2
soggy lettuce 2
electric tea 2
billion mobile 2
mobile phone 2
mobile phones 2
million phones 2
valuable materials 2
electronic waste 2
innovative solutions 2
entire life 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
process called life 2
called life cycle 2

Important Words


  1. alternative
  2. amount
  3. application
  4. avoid
  5. bag
  6. beneficial
  7. breaking
  8. buy
  9. carry
  10. compare
  11. completely
  12. consideration
  13. consumers
  14. criteria
  15. cycle
  16. day
  17. defines
  18. delivering
  19. demonstrated
  20. design
  21. designers
  22. earlier
  23. economy
  24. elegantly
  25. entire
  26. environmental
  27. extraction
  28. find
  29. fueling
  30. function
  31. functionality
  32. groceries
  33. home
  34. identifying
  35. impact
  36. innovate
  37. innovative
  38. kilo
  39. kinds
  40. life
  41. lot
  42. major
  43. material
  44. materials
  45. paper
  46. parameter
  47. participating
  48. perspective
  49. plastic
  50. problems
  51. produce
  52. products
  53. rest
  54. reusable
  55. room
  56. simple
  57. small
  58. smartly
  59. solutions
  60. sophisticated
  61. start
  62. sustainability
  63. system
  64. times
  65. ways
  66. weighs
  67. worse