Read the passage and choose correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blank:

Rubbish, and how we choose to handle it, ___36___  the environment and everything around us including the air, water, land, plants, and man-made things. We need a healthy environment for our well-being, so we can understand why effective management of rubbish is important. Everyone needs to ___37____ about and practise the three Rs - reduce, reuse, and recycle - to make our world safe ___38___ environmentally-friendly place. First, we must buy and use less and we should choose items with minimal packaging. Second, we should reuse things as much as possible and pass items on to others who can use them when they are no longer of use to us. Finally, we should recycle everything once its usefulness is over so they can be made into new items. Making new items from recycled ones takes less energy and fewer resources than making products from brand-new materials. Just about anything ____39____ cannot be reused can be recycled into something more. You’d be amazed what can be done with a recycled product! ____40____ recycled plastic bottle can be made into hundreds of other plastics goods that can be used for many years.

36. A. deals        B. affects            C. protects        D. raises
37. A. say        B. teach            C. learn        D. know
38. A. and        B. but                C. or            D. yet
39. A. who        B. when            C. that            D. where
40. A. a         B. an                C. the            D. X