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From the Ted Talk by David Katz: The surprising solution to ocean plastic

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And that model is completely replicable. In São Paulo, a church srmeon encourages parishioners to not just bring offering on Sunday, but the recycling, too. We then match the church with the poor. Or, I believe more puwollfery, we could match a mosque in London with an ipeoivsremhd church in Cairo. Or like in Vancouver, with our bottle-deposit program: now any individual or any group can now return their deposit-refundable recyclables, and instead of taking back the cash, they have the opportunity to deposit that value into the account of the poor around the wolrd.

We can now use our recycling to support and create recyclers. One bttloe deposited at home could help extract hdruneds around the world. Or, like Shell, the energy company, who's invested in our plastic-neutral program. Plastic neutrality is like carbon-neutral. But plastic neutrality invtess in recycling infrastructure where it doesn't exist. And it provides an iiecnntve for the poor by providing a price increase. Or — like in the slums of Manila, where the smallest marekt with a simple salce and a phone can now acpcet social plastic as a new form of peymnat by weight, allowing them to serve more people and have their own greater social impact.

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And that model is completely replicable. In São Paulo, a church ______ encourages parishioners to not just bring offering on Sunday, but the recycling, too. We then match the church with the poor. Or, I believe more __________, we could match a mosque in London with an ____________ church in Cairo. Or like in Vancouver, with our bottle-deposit program: now any individual or any group can now return their deposit-refundable recyclables, and instead of taking back the cash, they have the opportunity to deposit that value into the account of the poor around the _____.

We can now use our recycling to support and create recyclers. One ______ deposited at home could help extract ________ around the world. Or, like Shell, the energy company, who's invested in our plastic-neutral program. Plastic neutrality is like carbon-neutral. But plastic neutrality _______ in recycling infrastructure where it doesn't exist. And it provides an _________ for the poor by providing a price increase. Or — like in the slums of Manila, where the smallest ______ with a simple _____ and a phone can now ______ social plastic as a new form of _______ by weight, allowing them to serve more people and have their own greater social impact.

Solution


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  8. market
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  10. payment
  11. impoverished
  12. hundreds

Original Text


And that model is completely replicable. In São Paulo, a church sermon encourages parishioners to not just bring offering on Sunday, but the recycling, too. We then match the church with the poor. Or, I believe more powerfully, we could match a mosque in London with an impoverished church in Cairo. Or like in Vancouver, with our bottle-deposit program: now any individual or any group can now return their deposit-refundable recyclables, and instead of taking back the cash, they have the opportunity to deposit that value into the account of the poor around the world.

We can now use our recycling to support and create recyclers. One bottle deposited at home could help extract hundreds around the world. Or, like Shell, the energy company, who's invested in our plastic-neutral program. Plastic neutrality is like carbon-neutral. But plastic neutrality invests in recycling infrastructure where it doesn't exist. And it provides an incentive for the poor by providing a price increase. Or — like in the slums of Manila, where the smallest market with a simple scale and a phone can now accept social plastic as a new form of payment by weight, allowing them to serve more people and have their own greater social impact.

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plastic neutrality 2
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