Part 3. City Recycling.
Keywords.
landfill, recycle, recyclables, top five.
Vocabulary.
curbside, bustle, mound, commingle, assorted trash, forklift, fuzz, North Carolina, Charlotte Mecklenburg "Recycle Now" truck, FCR.
A. You're going to hear a report about city recycling. Listen carefully, number the following major points according to the order you hear them.
The United States is running out of landfill space, places to put its trash.
Because of that, more communities are encouraging their residents to recycle, to set aside certain materials that won't go to the landfill.
One area that's met the recycling challenge head-on is the Southeast city of Charlotte, North Carolina.
In just a few years, its recycling programs has became one of the country's most successful.
Catherine Smith lives in one of the 130,000 eligible recycling households in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Nearly 80 percent of the households participate in the program.
Each week, Smith goes to her front porch and fills her red plastic bin with recyclables.
You've got any plastic containers marked one or two, you've got any glass, they also recycle tin cans and newspapers.
So all of that can go in the curbside pick-up bin.
Well, You've got everything out here on the curb, what happens next?
Well, this is the easy part. Then someone, ah, driving a Charlotte Mecklenburg "Recycling Now" Truck comes and usually, at some point, tomorrow or Friday, and they pick it up at curbside, and that's it.
