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From the Ted Talk by Luka Seamus Wright and Imogen Ellen Napper: Which bag should you use?

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You’ve filled up your cart and made it to the front of the grocery line when you’re confronted with yet another choice: what kind of bag should you use? If you’ve seen the images of plastic bags strewn across the ocean, it might seem obvious that plastic is bad for the environment. suelry a peapr bag or a cotton tote would be the better option. But is that really true?

Each of these three materials has a unique environmental impact that’s determined by its carbon fntpoiort, its potential to be reused and rceyelcd, and its degradability. So, to get the full srtoy on these gecrory bags we need to look at how they’re made, how they’re used, and where they ultimately go.

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You’ve filled up your cart and made it to the front of the grocery line when you’re confronted with yet another choice: what kind of bag should you use? If you’ve seen the images of plastic bags strewn across the ocean, it might seem obvious that plastic is bad for the environment. ______ a _____ bag or a cotton tote would be the better option. But is that really true?

Each of these three materials has a unique environmental impact that’s determined by its carbon _________, its potential to be reused and ________, and its degradability. So, to get the full _____ on these _______ bags we need to look at how they’re made, how they’re used, and where they ultimately go.

Solution


  1. surely
  2. recycled
  3. grocery
  4. footprint
  5. paper
  6. story

Original Text


You’ve filled up your cart and made it to the front of the grocery line when you’re confronted with yet another choice: what kind of bag should you use? If you’ve seen the images of plastic bags strewn across the ocean, it might seem obvious that plastic is bad for the environment. Surely a paper bag or a cotton tote would be the better option. But is that really true?

Each of these three materials has a unique environmental impact that’s determined by its carbon footprint, its potential to be reused and recycled, and its degradability. So, to get the full story on these grocery bags we need to look at how they’re made, how they’re used, and where they ultimately go.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
plastic bags 4
carbon footprint 4
paper bag 3
cotton tote 3
environmental impact 3
carbon dioxide 3
plastic bag 2
paper bags 2
hdpe bags 2


Important Words


  1. bad
  2. bag
  3. bags
  4. carbon
  5. cart
  6. confronted
  7. cotton
  8. degradability
  9. determined
  10. environment
  11. environmental
  12. filled
  13. footprint
  14. front
  15. full
  16. grocery
  17. images
  18. impact
  19. kind
  20. line
  21. materials
  22. obvious
  23. ocean
  24. option
  25. paper
  26. plastic
  27. potential
  28. recycled
  29. reused
  30. story
  31. strewn
  32. surely
  33. tote
  34. true
  35. ultimately
  36. unique