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Vocabulary 1 Green issues
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A 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 discharge into rivers or the sea (as a result, these toxic liquids flow into the water). They should dispose of waste (get rid of waste) in more acceptable ways.
Nuclear power plants are required to monitor 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 carcinogenic, causing cancer.
 Governments impose strict regulations to force companies to limit pollution.
B Recycling
Products should be recyclable (able to be treated after they have already been used so that they can be used again) - the European Union, for example, has regulations about the proportion of products and packaging that must be reused and recycled. Household and industrial waste should also be recycled. Supporters of recycling say that dumping (get rid of) waste in landfills (an area of land where large amounts of waste material are buried under the earth) cannot continue indefinitely and that burning waste in incinerators (a container which is closed on all sides for burning waste at high temperatures) is also environmentally damaging / damages the environment.
C Word combinations with 'environmental'
degradation damage to the environment
devastation severe damage to the environment
environmental lobby pressure groups such as Greenpeace and friends
of the Earth who campaign on issues together
standards rules that companies and government authorities
should follow in relation to the environment
D Sustainability
 The development of industry, etc. which does not threaten the environment or social and economic stability is called sustainable development.Some industries are directly dependent on natural resources, and managing these resources so that they are not depleted (reduced) is essential. For example, deep-sea fishing has to be done in a way that maintains fish stocks and avoids overfishing. Ideally, those engaged in logging (the work of cutting down trees for their wood) that causes deforestation (the act of cutting down or burning the trees in an area) should have an incentive to maintain future timber stocks through reafforestation(the act of planting new trees in an area where there used to be a forest). These industries should be run in ways that are sustainable - in ways that maintain the resources that they rely on and do not harm the environment.
Another aspect of sustainability is renewable or alternative energy sources such as wind power (replaced naturally and can therefore be used without the risk of finishing them all).
These are some of the environmental or green issues that companies are facing.
BrE: reafforestation;
AmE: reforestation
/Business Vocabulary in Use. Advanced. Bill Mascull/
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