Recycling- chapters 2 and 3 | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

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Chapter 2:Where were the earliest landfill sites found?

In Knossos, Crete.

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Chapter 2:What is compost used for?

To help young plants grow.

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Chapter 2:Why did people in London use to wear high wooden shoes?

To keep their feet clean on the dirty streets.

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Chapter 2:Why was Shakespeares father punished in 1515?

Because he threw rubbish into the street.

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Chapter 2:Which people take away much of Cairo's rubbish?

The Zabbaleen

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Chapter 2:What is your life like if you live near a landfill site?

It is dirty, difficcult, dangerous and unhealthy.

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Chapter 2:Where in the Philippines did a hill of rubbish fall down?

At Payatas, near Manila.

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Chapter 2:Why did people continue to live and work there?

Because without the rubbish they would have no jobs and no money.

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Chapter 3:Why is there more rubbish today than in the past?

Because people buy new things more often and so they throw away their old things more often too.

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Chapter 3:Why do business change the shape or color of things like mobile phones so often?

Because they want to make people buy the new things and throw away the old ones.

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Chapter 3:How does packaging make people buy more?

It makes ordinary things look better and more expensive.

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Chapter 3:How much of the rubbish in the United States can be recycled?

80%

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Chapter 3:How have the lives of people in China changed in the last twenty years?

Now people in China want the same things ass people in the other parts of the world.

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Chapter 3: Why can't the UK make more landfill sites?

Because there is nowhere for the new landfill sites to go.

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Chapter 3: What did people use ash for in the past?

Making roads and parks.

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Chapter 3: What is different about recycling today?

People are recycling because they want to save the Earth/planet.

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