Unit 8 Scripts

Listening 1
Narrator 1: You are now going to hear a talk about glass recycling.
Narrator 2:
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Millions of glass items are used every day, with bottles, jars, and light bulbs being among the
most common. The process of recycling glass rather than making it new saves energy and
reduces the amount of waste at landfills. The first step in the process of recycling household
glass is to wash the items in warm, soapy water. This is to ensure that there isn’t any drink or
food left on the glass. Secondly, the jars and bottles are collected by one of two systems,
depending on the town or city'.
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Bottle banks are large recycling bins, usually with three holes that enable the glass to be
separated by colour - clear, brown, or green. In other cities, people put their bottles and jars in a
container which they leave outside their house on a set day of the week. A truck then comes past,
and the glass is collected and sorted into different colours by glass collection companies.
Thirdly, the glass is taken to a glass plant,
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-----------------------------------------------------------------. At the glass plant, one of two things can
happen. In the first case, the bottles are sterilised and then reused for their original purpose - that
is, soft drink bottles are refilled with soft drinks, or jam jars are refilled with jam, and so on.
Reusing bottles as they are saves money, and saves more energy than the second process. In the
second case, the glass is melted down and made into new bottles or other products entirely. First,
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different types and colours of glass, because they have different chemical properties. Then, the
crushed glass is mixed with amounts of sand, ash, and limestone and placed in a furnace to be
melted.
Finally, most of the melted glass is poured to make new bottles and jars. However, depending on
the quality,
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Listening 2
Narrator 1: You are going to hear a talk about the recycling process for aluminium cans.
Narrator 2:
Every year, millions and millions of drink cans are sold around the world.
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--------------------------. The process of recycling these cans is very important because it saves
energy and reduces the amount of waste in landfills.
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As with glass bottles and jars, this means that the cans are either taken by the general public to
large recycling bins - known as ‘can banks' - outside supermarkets and other shops, or picked up
from outside people’s houses by can collection companies. Secondly, the cans are taken to
special centres,
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---------------------------. Thirdly, the cans are then transported to a recycling plant, where a
machine cuts them into small pieces. Then, the pieces of aluminium are melted in a very hot
furnace, before being poured into huge moulds and left to go cold.
In the next stage, the big blocks of aluminium are taken to another plant for rolling.
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---------------. Next, they are left to cool, before being rolled a second time until they are thin
enough to make new aluminium cans. The thin pieces of aluminium are then put into another
machine where they are cut up and made into new cans. After this, the new cans are painted with
the colours and the logo of the drink company.
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Lastly, the new, clean aluminium cans are filled with gas and liquid. They are now ready to be
transported to shops, supermarkets, and drink machines for people to buy. Then,
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