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20.03.2022 01:57

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The passive
Complete the following passage with the appropriate passive forms of the verbs in
brackets.
A new campaign (1) was launched (launch) earlier this year by the UK government
which aims to reduce the amount of domestic waste. Households (2)
_______________________ (encourage) to recycle certain waste products and to sort
and prepare others for collection at specific sites. From there they (3)
___________________ (take) to special waste treatment plants where special
machinery will process them for reuse as recycled material.
In Britain today, when the contents of the average household dustbin (4)
____________________ (analyse), we find that, in terms of weight, 35% of the total
(5) _____________________ (compose) of paper and cardboard, 22% of kitchen
waste, 12% of plastics with glass, dust and ashes each representing a further 10%.
There are in fact only a few items of domestic waste that cannot (6)
___________________ (recycle). One common example is disposable nappies which,
as their name suggests,
(7) ___________________ (design) to be thrown away after use. However, a lot of
progress could (8) ___________________ (make) to reduce the amount of kitchen
waste most of which can (9) ___________________ (transform) into a useful garden
fertiliser. Indeed, if more people chose to do this then the weight of the average
dustbin (10) _______________ (reduce) quite significantly.
In terms of glass products, the situation is more encouraging as nearly 20% of all the
glass that (11) ___________________ (use) every year in the country (12)
__________________ (take) back for recycling.
Nonetheless, it is clear that the mountains of domestic waste will only decrease if
efforts (13) ___________________ (make) both by individual households and local
government authorities. Special equipment such as collection trucks must (14)
___________________ (purchase) and people must (15) ___________________
(make) aware of how they can contribute to improving the situation. This (16)
___________________ (achieve) with increasing success in a number of regions in
Europe during the last few years, a trend that (17) ___________________ (expect) to
continue in the future.