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From the Ted Talk by Aparna Nancherla: The joy of taking out the trash

Unscramble the Blue Letters


But then I learned recycling frequently isn't working. Even if we all separate out glass, cans and cardboard, a lot of stuff doesn't neatly fit into those ctgieoaers. Paper envelopes lined with blbbue wrap can't be recycled. Pizza boxes with grease stains can't be recycled. That mermoy from seventh grade when I ... Ah, who am I kdinidg? All of seventh grade can't be recycled. There's even a term for it: aorpasiatinl recycling. At first, I thought that's if you went to spin class last week, so it should count for this week too.

chnia used to ipmrot a lot of the US's recyclables, but they sotpepd accepting foreign garbage in 2018 as part of a pollution ban. Whatever happened to one country's tsrah is another country's treasure? Now, a lot of US rccienylg goes straight to landfills. The EPA says that only 10 percent of plastic has ever been recycled. Not that this is about me, but this balloons my anxiety the size of the giant Pacific garbage patch way out in the ocean where we'll all eventually go for our next dittoesnain wedding.

Open Cloze


But then I learned recycling frequently isn't working. Even if we all separate out glass, cans and cardboard, a lot of stuff doesn't neatly fit into those __________. Paper envelopes lined with ______ wrap can't be recycled. Pizza boxes with grease stains can't be recycled. That ______ from seventh grade when I ... Ah, who am I _______? All of seventh grade can't be recycled. There's even a term for it: ____________ recycling. At first, I thought that's if you went to spin class last week, so it should count for this week too.

_____ used to ______ a lot of the US's recyclables, but they _______ accepting foreign garbage in 2018 as part of a pollution ban. Whatever happened to one country's _____ is another country's treasure? Now, a lot of US _________ goes straight to landfills. The EPA says that only 10 percent of plastic has ever been recycled. Not that this is about me, but this balloons my anxiety the size of the giant Pacific garbage patch way out in the ocean where we'll all eventually go for our next ___________ wedding.

Solution


  1. aspirational
  2. memory
  3. recycling
  4. china
  5. import
  6. kidding
  7. categories
  8. destination
  9. trash
  10. stopped
  11. bubble

Original Text


But then I learned recycling frequently isn't working. Even if we all separate out glass, cans and cardboard, a lot of stuff doesn't neatly fit into those categories. Paper envelopes lined with bubble wrap can't be recycled. Pizza boxes with grease stains can't be recycled. That memory from seventh grade when I ... Ah, who am I kidding? All of seventh grade can't be recycled. There's even a term for it: aspirational recycling. At first, I thought that's if you went to spin class last week, so it should count for this week too.

China used to import a lot of the US's recyclables, but they stopped accepting foreign garbage in 2018 as part of a pollution ban. Whatever happened to one country's trash is another country's treasure? Now, a lot of US recycling goes straight to landfills. The EPA says that only 10 percent of plastic has ever been recycled. Not that this is about me, but this balloons my anxiety the size of the giant Pacific garbage patch way out in the ocean where we'll all eventually go for our next destination wedding.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
seventh grade 2


Important Words


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  53. stopped
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  60. wedding
  61. week
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  63. wrap