Plastic footprint

Learning English Conversations

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Education, Language Learning

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🗓️ 17 November 2020

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

It's similar to 'carbon footprint', but this focuses on your plastic usage.

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0:00.0	This is a download from BBC Learning English.
0:03.0	To find out more, visit our website.
0:07.0	Hello and welcome to the English we speak.
0:10.0	I'm Faye Fay.
0:11.0	And I'm the new improved Roy. Wow Roy you look really different why are you
0:18.7	wearing a suit? Well I decided to give some of my old clothes away to charity and start wearing my suit and tie,
0:27.0	and cut my hair short.
0:29.0	Also, I'm wearing these shoes that have a metal soul to reduce my plastic footprint.
0:34.8	You know that plastic footprint doesn't relate specifically to your shoes, right?
0:40.8	Plastic footprint relates to the amount of plastic you use in your everyday life.
0:47.0	Yep and I'm very aware of the amount of plastic I use. In fact, I get really angry when I receive or buy something that
0:56.2	uses unnecessary plastic packaging.
0:58.6	Roy, I've never heard you get angry before. I'm really impressed you care about
1:04.8	plastic footprint. Well I only get upset when it relates to the future of the
1:10.0	planet a planet my son and his children will inherit. Let's listen to these examples.
1:15.6	I've tried to avoid buying things that use too much plastic packaging because I'm very
1:21.8	aware of my plastic footprint. The shop has started using paper bags to reduce its
1:27.8	plastic footprint. First it was carbon, now it's our plastic footprint we have to reduce. I have to read more about it.
1:36.0	This is the English we speak from BBC Learning English and we're talking about the
1:44.2	expression plastic footprint. This relates to the amount of plastic that we use in
1:50.4	our everyday life. Roy, how are you reducing your plastic footprint?
1:56.0	Well, first of all, whenever I buy a coffee, I use a reusable coffee cup.
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