PLASTIC PACKAGING

Match the following

• comparable to

• prevail

• conflict

• squall

• idea

• initiative

• anxiety

• equivalent to

• persuade

• unease

Supermarkets and brands, which are under ​ (a)   to reduce the quantity of packaging of all types that they use, are finding good environmental reasons to turn to plastic: it is lighter, so requires less ​ (b)   for transportation than glass, for example; it requires relatively little energy to produce; and it is often ​ (c)   . An Austrian study found that if plastic packaging were removed from the supply chain, other packaging would have to increase​ (d)   to make up for it

• pressure
• energy
• reusable
• fourfold

Dick Scarle of the Packaging Federation points out that societies without ​ (a)   packaging lose half their food before it reaches ​ (b)   and that in the UK, waste in supply chains is about 3 percent.In India, it is more than 50 per cent. The difference comes later: the British throw out 30 per cent of the food they buy - an environmental cost in terms of emissions ​ (c)   to a fifth of the cars on their roads. Packagers agree that cardboard, metals and ​ (d)   all have their good points, but there’s nothing quite like plastic.

• sophisticated
• consumers
• equivalent
• glass
• consumption

Plastic packaging is important, and it might provide a way of thinking about broader questions of ...( sustain)

There seems to be a universal eagerness to condemn plastic. Is this due to an.....(able) to make die general changes in society that are really required?

“The amount of packaging used today is a .... of modern life.“ (reflect)

what is the odd out?

• condeem

• blame

• praise

• criticise