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   |U28 ECONOMICS AND ECOLOGY                                                                   |
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   GREEN ISSUES

           to discharge into;    to monitor; to maintain; not to deplete; to dispose of;

                          greenwash; carcinogenic; landfills; incinerators

   Environmental pollution

   Companies should of course minimize environmental pollution = damage to the land, sea, etc.
   caused by their activities. They should not pollute the air with toxic emissions from chimneys
   or with toxic liquids that they 1. _____________ rivers or the sea. They should
   2._____________ waste in more acceptable ways.

   Nuclear power plants are required to 3. ____________ levels of radioactivity in the air and
   water around them, but critics say that even minimum levels of radioactivity are unacceptable.
   And some pollutants are 4. _________________ = causing cancer.

   Governments impose stringent regulations to force companies to limit pollution.

   

   Recycling

   Products should be recyclable = the EU, e.g., has regulations about the proportion or
   percentage content of products and packaging that must be reused and recycled. Household and
   industrial waste should also be recycled. Supporters of recycling say that dumping waste in 5.
   ________________cannot continue indefinitely and that burning waste in 6. __________________
   is also environmentally damaging.

   

   Sustainability

   Some industries are directly dependent on natural resources, and managing these resources so
   that they 7. ______________ is essential. For example, deep-sea fishing has to be done in a
   way that 8. _________________fish stocks and avoids overfishing.

   Another aspect of sustainability is renewable or alternative energy sources such as wind or
   power.

   These are some of the environmental or green issues that companies are facing. Some companies
   produce reports on these issues that give a more favourable impression than is justified by
   the real facts. This is called 9. ___________________by critics.

   

   Vocab. incinerator = a machine that destroys waste or other material by burning it; spalovna,
   spalovací pec