Read the text and think of the word which best fits each gap.
Every year people throw away millions of tonnes of plastic bottles, boxes and wrapping. These create huge mountains of waste that are extremely hard to get (76) ……………………..…. of. Now a new recycling process promises to reduce this problem by turning old plastic (77) ……………………..…. new.
Scientists have taken (78) ……………………..…. long time to develop their ideas because waste plastic has always been a bigger problem (79) ……………………..…. substances like waste paper. You can bury plastic, but it takes many years to break down. If you burn it, it just becomes another (80) ……………………..…. of pollution. A few products, for example bottles, can be re-used, but it is expensive or difficult to do this with a lot of plastic products.
Now a group of companies has developed a new method (81) ……………………..…. recycling that could save almost (82) ……………………..…. plastic waste. Nearly every type of waste plastic can be used: it does (83) ……………………..…. have to be sorted. In addition, labels and ink may be left on the products. Everything is simply mixed together (84) ……………………..…. heated to more than 400 degrees centigrade (85) ……………………..…. that it melts. It is then cooled, producing a waxy substance that can be used to make new plastic products, including computer hardware.
These create huge mountains of waste that are extremely hard to get (76)
……………………..…. of.
