Rubbish! Exercise 2
Which of the following do you not hear in this video?
1 A question about whether you can remember when the last time that you dropped litter was.
2 A question about when the last time you picked up someone else’s (i.e.litter) was?
3 A description of how we deal with litter as ‘our litterlout habits’.
4 Bill Bryson being described as a best-selling author.
5 Litter is becoming the default condition of a great deal of the countryside.
6 It is time for the government to address this problem with a real plan.
7 Kate Silverton says we are dropping more litter than we did in the 60s.
8 What really worries Bill Bryson is not just that there is more litter out there but that it’s becoming the norm.
9 He means that if you’re 10 or 12 you are growing up in a country now in which the normal way to behave when you have some packaging and you don’t want it any more is just to get rid of it.
10 Bill Turnbull says that when he sees youngsters dropping some litter out of a car he doesn’t feel able to say anything to them.
11 A description of Bill Bryson as a ‘crusader against litter louts’.
12 Bryson suggests it would be no bad thing if people actually thought they might get caught dropping litter and that it would cost them money or points on their driving licence.
13 Bill Turnbull objects that enforcing laws about rubbish would cost (a lot of) money if you were going to do it properly.
14 Catching (and fining) just 2% of people who flytip could raise a lot of money.
15 Some councils have actually done away with rubbish bins.
16 If there is no litter bin around 40% of us will take our litter home with us.
17 Bill Turnbull seems to be admitting that he sometimes picks up dropped litter, but often he feels reluctant to.
18 Litter is a problem that doesn’t just anger Bill Bryson, it saddens him.
19 The solution, if we care about litter, is for us all to lean down and pick up an odd crisp packet.
20 Ian Jones is mentioned as having sent an email to Breakfast.
21 The worst offender as far as litter is concerned are local councils who do nothing about litter in hedgerows and on private land.
22 Train companies make no effort to clear trackside litter.
23 The Trans-Pennine route between Manchester and Leeds is a national disgrace.
24 A bottle deposit scheme involves getting a printed out receipt for empty bottles that you can then redeem for money.
25 In New York State the bottle deposit scheme has reduced litter by 80%.