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From the Ted Talk by Patricia Villarrubia-Gómez: The problem with plastics -- and how they're changing the environment

Unscramble the Blue Letters


The dominant narrative about plastics tell us that this is a consumer’s and a wtase management problem. Who of us here have not heard about the tales of gigantic plastic ilsndas floating in the middle of the ocaen? Which, by the way, it's not true. And that low-income coutniers are to blame for most of the plastic waste entering our oceans. But this narrative is a misleading oversimplification of a much bigegr and clpomex story.

Plastics and their chemical additives are really a climate problem.

Now, we need to think of plastics from a systemic perspective. So let me take you through the journey of plastics. Plastics contribute to climate chgnae from before the moment they are produced to long beyond the moment they are disposed or landfill or drift into the ocean. And it will remain in the environment for centuries, degrading ecological pserosecs.

Open Cloze


The dominant narrative about plastics tell us that this is a consumer’s and a _____ management problem. Who of us here have not heard about the tales of gigantic plastic _______ floating in the middle of the _____? Which, by the way, it's not true. And that low-income _________ are to blame for most of the plastic waste entering our oceans. But this narrative is a misleading oversimplification of a much ______ and _______ story.

Plastics and their chemical additives are really a climate problem.

Now, we need to think of plastics from a systemic perspective. So let me take you through the journey of plastics. Plastics contribute to climate ______ from before the moment they are produced to long beyond the moment they are disposed or landfill or drift into the ocean. And it will remain in the environment for centuries, degrading ecological _________.

Solution


  1. bigger
  2. change
  3. countries
  4. ocean
  5. waste
  6. complex
  7. islands
  8. processes

Original Text


The dominant narrative about plastics tell us that this is a consumer’s and a waste management problem. Who of us here have not heard about the tales of gigantic plastic islands floating in the middle of the ocean? Which, by the way, it's not true. And that low-income countries are to blame for most of the plastic waste entering our oceans. But this narrative is a misleading oversimplification of a much bigger and complex story.

Plastics and their chemical additives are really a climate problem.

Now, we need to think of plastics from a systemic perspective. So let me take you through the journey of plastics. Plastics contribute to climate change from before the moment they are produced to long beyond the moment they are disposed or landfill or drift into the ocean. And it will remain in the environment for centuries, degrading ecological processes.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
plastic pollution 2
climate problem 2
fossil fuel 2
greenhouse gases 2
total mass 2


Important Words


  1. additives
  2. bigger
  3. blame
  4. centuries
  5. change
  6. chemical
  7. climate
  8. complex
  9. contribute
  10. countries
  11. degrading
  12. disposed
  13. dominant
  14. drift
  15. ecological
  16. entering
  17. environment
  18. floating
  19. gigantic
  20. heard
  21. islands
  22. journey
  23. landfill
  24. long
  25. management
  26. middle
  27. misleading
  28. moment
  29. narrative
  30. ocean
  31. oceans
  32. oversimplification
  33. perspective
  34. plastic
  35. plastics
  36. problem
  37. processes
  38. produced
  39. remain
  40. story
  41. systemic
  42. tales
  43. true
  44. waste