GREEN ISSUES BUSINESS VOCABULARY IN USE (ADVANCED)

 

BUSINESS VOCABULARY IN USE (ADVANCED) 43. GREEN ISSUES

 

A Environmental pollution Companies should of course minimize environmental pollution – damage to the land, sea, etc. caused by their activities. They should not pollute the air with toxic emissions from chimneys or with effluent-toxic liquids that they discharge into rivers or the sea. They should dispose of waste in more acceptable ways. Nuclear power plants are required to monitor levels of radioactivity in the air and water around them, but critics say that even minimum levels of radioactivity are unacceptable. And some pollutants are carcinogenic, causing cancer. Governments impose stringent regulations to force companies to limit pollution. B Recycling Products should be recycled – the European Union, for example, has regulations about the proportion or percentage content of products and packaging that must be reused and recycled. Household and industrial waste should also be recycled. Supporters of recycling say that dumping waste in landfills cannot continue indefinitely and that burning waste in incinerators is also environmentally damaging. C Word combinations with ‘environmental’ D Sustainability Some industries are directly dependent on natural resources, and managing these resources so that they are not depleted is essential. For example, deep-sea fishing has to be done in a way that maintains fish stocks and avoids overfishing. Ideally, those engaged in logging that causes deforestation should have an incentive to maintain future timber stocks through reafforestation. Those industries should be run in ways that are sustainable – in ways that maintain the resources that they rely on. EXERCISES 43.1 Complete the table with words from A and B opposite and related forms. Put a stress mark in front of the stressed syllable in each word. (The first one has been done for you.) 43.2 Match the two parts of these sentences containing expressions from C opposite. 1 He led a political campaign against the company, saying its oil production caused environmental a lobby, this type of plastic is such a dangerous substance to manufacture and dispose of that it should be banned. 2 According to the environmental b credentials, there are several household cleaning products that will cause less damage to the environment, but are likely to cost slightly more. 43.3 Complete the sentences with expressions from D opposite. 1. Illegal _________ could accelerate degradation or even cause _________, which has affected more than 9,8 million acres of forest in the past 30 years. 2. Fishermen are being encouraged to catch alternative fish species because _________ has  _________ the stocks to near-collapse.

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