Recycling in the world

Spanish A1 writing exercise

El reciclaje en el mundo

Learn some world recycling facts. In this exercise, you'll practise El Presente, numbers, possessive adjectives, and gender/number of nouns/adjectives.

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Some vocabulary you may want to look up before or during this exercise: "to recycle", "waste (rubbish)", "%", "statistics", "territory" and "horizon".

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Different countries of the world do not recycle the same way. For example, Sweden, Germany and the Netherlands recycle half of their total garbage. Also, Spain reuses 33% of waste and 50% of packaging, but many countries need to improve their recycling statistics, like the territories of Latin America. We have to recycle a lot to create a more sustainable world and change the current horizon.

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