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From the Ted Talk by Emma Bryce: What really happens to the plastic you throw away?

Unscramble the Blue Letters


This is the story of three plastic bottles, empty and discarded. Their journeys are about to diverge with oueomtcs that impact nothing less than the fate of the penlat. But they weren't always this way. To understand where these bottles end up, we must first explore their origins.

The heroes of our story were conceived in this oil refinery. The plastic in their bodies was formed by chemically bonding oil and gas meeollcus together to make monomers. In turn, these monomers were bonded into long polymer chains to make plastic in the form of millions of pellets. Those were mteled at manufacturing plants and reformed in molds to create the resilient material that makes up the triplets' bodies. Machines fellid the bottles with sweet bubbily liquid and they were then wpaeprd, shipped, bohugt, opened, consumed and unuceesooilrmny daeircdsd. And now here they lie, poeisd at the edge of the unknown.

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This is the story of three plastic bottles, empty and discarded. Their journeys are about to diverge with ________ that impact nothing less than the fate of the ______. But they weren't always this way. To understand where these bottles end up, we must first explore their origins.

The heroes of our story were conceived in this oil refinery. The plastic in their bodies was formed by chemically bonding oil and gas _________ together to make monomers. In turn, these monomers were bonded into long polymer chains to make plastic in the form of millions of pellets. Those were ______ at manufacturing plants and reformed in molds to create the resilient material that makes up the triplets' bodies. Machines ______ the bottles with sweet bubbily liquid and they were then _______, shipped, ______, opened, consumed and _______________ _________. And now here they lie, ______ at the edge of the unknown.

Solution


  1. unceremoniously
  2. outcomes
  3. poised
  4. planet
  5. discarded
  6. melted
  7. bought
  8. molecules
  9. wrapped
  10. filled

Original Text


This is the story of three plastic bottles, empty and discarded. Their journeys are about to diverge with outcomes that impact nothing less than the fate of the planet. But they weren't always this way. To understand where these bottles end up, we must first explore their origins.

The heroes of our story were conceived in this oil refinery. The plastic in their bodies was formed by chemically bonding oil and gas molecules together to make monomers. In turn, these monomers were bonded into long polymer chains to make plastic in the form of millions of pellets. Those were melted at manufacturing plants and reformed in molds to create the resilient material that makes up the triplets' bodies. Machines filled the bottles with sweet bubbily liquid and they were then wrapped, shipped, bought, opened, consumed and unceremoniously discarded. And now here they lie, poised at the edge of the unknown.

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