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Description:
The passage implies that landfills
(A)are developed into parks and public areas
(B)should be a last resort for waste
(C)could double as composting sites
(D)are abused by yard waste
Transcript
- 00:03
Okay sy reading shoppers Here we go Another fine paragraph
- 00:06
for you Question is well the passage implies that landfills
- 00:11
what All right So let's read this thing Compost is
- 00:15
organic material that could be added to soil the hell
- 00:17
plants grow Food scraps in yard waste currently make up
Full Transcript
- 00:20
twenty to thirty percent of what's thrown away I'm such
- 00:22
eggshells leaves grass clippings See we didn't help coffee grounds
- 00:26
and dryer lynch It'll avoid the trash can These heroes
- 00:28
candice said become posted to help the environment free and
- 00:31
easy to compost Plus it keeps the girls out of
- 00:32
landfills where you take a face and eventually release methane
- 00:35
A potent greenhouse gas Okay well so what is the
- 00:38
passage Imply that landfills do let's Think about this Well
- 00:42
we could infer that landfills should be a last resort
- 00:45
for waste because as the passage states they take up
- 00:48
space and produced harmful methane Yeah compost or recycle instead
- 00:53
you know that's the watchword here So it's b should
- 00:55
be a last resort There's an eagle song That's Really
- 00:58
good it's all about this sort of beat The emotional
- 01:01
Ask your parents Okay well loser bowl there's Nothing in
- 01:03
attacks to suggest that landfills or developed into parks where
- 01:07
that come from that sounds a pretty unpleasant teo So
- 01:10
the author suggests composting certain materials rather than throwing them
- 01:13
away Here she doesn't offer landfills as potential compost sites
- 01:17
Weird landfill abuse at the hands of yard waste makes
- 01:20
us think of angry rakes and gardening gloves It's kind
- 01:23
of a stretch based on the information given so that's
- 01:26
it it's the last resort for waste poor schmuck in 00:01:29.83 --> [endTime] the composted
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