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From the Ted Talk by Dame Ellen MacArthur: The surprising thing I learned sailing solo around the world

Unscramble the Blue Letters


So what could this economy look like? Maybe we wouldn't buy lihgt fttngiis, but we'd pay for the scerive of light, and the manufacturers would recover the materials and change the light fittings when we had more efficient products. What if packaging was so nontoxic it could dissolve in water and we could ultimately drink it? It would never become waste. What if engines were re-manufacturable, and we could recover the component materials and significantly recude energy demand. What if we could roveecr cmopoentns from circuit borads, reutilize them, and then fundamentally recover the materials within them through a second satge? What if we could collect food waste, hmaun waste? What if we could turn that into fertilizer, heat, energy, ultimately reconnecting nutrients systems and rebuilding natural capital? And cars — what we want is to move around. We don't need to own the materials within them. Could cars become a service and provide us with mtilbioy in the future? All of this sounds amazing, but these aren't just ideas, they're real today, and these lie at the forefront of the circular economy. What lies before us is to expand them and scale them up.

Open Cloze


So what could this economy look like? Maybe we wouldn't buy _____ ________, but we'd pay for the _______ of light, and the manufacturers would recover the materials and change the light fittings when we had more efficient products. What if packaging was so nontoxic it could dissolve in water and we could ultimately drink it? It would never become waste. What if engines were re-manufacturable, and we could recover the component materials and significantly ______ energy demand. What if we could _______ __________ from circuit ______, reutilize them, and then fundamentally recover the materials within them through a second _____? What if we could collect food waste, _____ waste? What if we could turn that into fertilizer, heat, energy, ultimately reconnecting nutrients systems and rebuilding natural capital? And cars — what we want is to move around. We don't need to own the materials within them. Could cars become a service and provide us with ________ in the future? All of this sounds amazing, but these aren't just ideas, they're real today, and these lie at the forefront of the circular economy. What lies before us is to expand them and scale them up.

Solution


  1. boards
  2. human
  3. recover
  4. fittings
  5. light
  6. mobility
  7. service
  8. reduce
  9. stage
  10. components

Original Text


So what could this economy look like? Maybe we wouldn't buy light fittings, but we'd pay for the service of light, and the manufacturers would recover the materials and change the light fittings when we had more efficient products. What if packaging was so nontoxic it could dissolve in water and we could ultimately drink it? It would never become waste. What if engines were re-manufacturable, and we could recover the component materials and significantly reduce energy demand. What if we could recover components from circuit boards, reutilize them, and then fundamentally recover the materials within them through a second stage? What if we could collect food waste, human waste? What if we could turn that into fertilizer, heat, energy, ultimately reconnecting nutrients systems and rebuilding natural capital? And cars — what we want is to move around. We don't need to own the materials within them. Could cars become a service and provide us with mobility in the future? All of this sounds amazing, but these aren't just ideas, they're real today, and these lie at the forefront of the circular economy. What lies before us is to expand them and scale them up.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
southern ocean 5
circular economy 5
solo nonstop 3
global economy 3
long term 3
single day 2
sail solo 2
finish line 2
linear economy 2
replace current 2
young people 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
sail solo nonstop 2

Important Words


  1. amazing
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  3. buy
  4. capital
  5. cars
  6. change
  7. circuit
  8. circular
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  10. component
  11. components
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  13. dissolve
  14. drink
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  19. expand
  20. fertilizer
  21. fittings
  22. food
  23. forefront
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  25. future
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  27. human
  28. ideas
  29. lie
  30. lies
  31. light
  32. manufacturers
  33. materials
  34. mobility
  35. move
  36. natural
  37. nontoxic
  38. nutrients
  39. packaging
  40. pay
  41. products
  42. provide
  43. real
  44. rebuilding
  45. reconnecting
  46. recover
  47. reduce
  48. reutilize
  49. scale
  50. service
  51. significantly
  52. sounds
  53. stage
  54. systems
  55. today
  56. turn
  57. ultimately
  58. waste
  59. water