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The amount of household waste being recycled in England has increased more than three times in
the past decade, official figures show.
But householders (住户) are still throwing away more than 60% of their rubbish, the statistics from
the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Rural Affairs (Defra) found.
The proportion of household waste being recycled, composted (堆肥) or reused rose slightly last
year from 37.6% in 2008 - 2009 to 39.7% in 2009 - 2010.
According to the figures, 9.4 million tonnes of waste was recycled last year, up from 9.1 million
the year before and more than three times the 2.8 million tonnes recycled in 2000 - 2001.
The overall amount of waste being sent to landfill by local councils fell by 2.7% on the previous
year and now stands at 23.7 million tonnes.
Each English household threw away on average just over a tonne of rubbish in the past, of which
411 kilograms was recycled, composted or reused and 625kg ended up in landfill or burned.
The amount of waste being sent to landfill by local councils fell by 9.4% to 12.5 million tonnes last
year.
The Government recently launched a review into England’s waste strategy in a bid to encourage
people to reduce levels of rubbish being thrown into landfills and make it easier for them to increase
the amount of waste being recycled.
Ministers have been eager to cut the number of wheelie bins and containers people have to deal
with to sort their waste.
And in a move which could see a reversal (逆转) in the trend towards fortnightly (两周一次的)
bin rounds, brought in as part of efforts to boost recycling, the review is also looking at how the
Government can work with councils to increase the frequency and quality of collections.
1. The household waste being recycled in 2009 - 2010 made up _______.
A. 60%
B. 37.6%
C. 39.7%
D. 94.%
2. The overall amount of waste produced in 2008 - 2009 was about ________.
A. 9.4 million tonnes
B. 9.1 million tonnes
C. 23.7 million tonnes
D. 24.36 million tonnes
3. A review of waste strategy was launched in England in order to ______.
A. make it more convenient to recycle waste
B. call on householders to sort rubbish out
C. make it easier to collect recyclable waste
D. encourage householders to reduce rubbish
4. What can be inferred from the last paragraph?
A. All the waste will be reused in the future.
B. Fortnightly collection is a waste of resources
C. More waste will be recycled instead of ending up in landfills
D. It will take a shorter time for the waste to be collected
5. What is the text mainly about?
A. Dealing with waste in England
B. The trend to recycle more rubbish
C. How to recycle rubbish in the future
D. A review of England’s waste strategy
