Text of my presentation for English class part 2 How long until it's gone? It takes up to 10 days to digest a banana peal. On average, a paper bag decompose for 3.5 months and a plastic bag, which is made of easy recycling plastic, decompose for 15 years, cigarette butt – 12 years, glass jar – million years, plastic container doesn't dissolve at all. I hope, I've convinced you that recycling problem isn't my imagination. And we can move to its solution – the process of recycling. How does it work? Here you can see close loop cycle of recycling. First, you should separate you trash for several group: plastic, glass, paper, metal and cloths. A special car takes you trash and delivers it to recycling factory. The process of recycling different materials are similar: washing, shredding, melting, using as raw materials for new products. Aluminum and glass may be recycled indefinitely. Plastic may be recycled many times but it's rather complicated process. And paper may be recycled up to 6 times. And what do happen with cloths? Clothing that can be worn again is marketed worldwide as second-hand goods, Textiles that are not longer suitable to wear are converted into cleaning cloths. Textile that can be reused get a new chance as a textile fabrics. And then rewear, reuse and recycle are not options, textiles are used to produce energy. And sometimes old cloths can become an art. Now you know how to manage with trash. But how does make people to recycle their waste? In the beginning of my presentation, I promised to tell you the secret of recycling in Germany. So, let me keep my words. As you understood, we are moving to Germany. There are perfect conditions for recycling. Bins for different kind of trash are everywhere. They built innovative recycling factory. Here you can see German tinplate recycling rate. In 2008 it was 94%. I think, nowadays it reached 99%. Because in German landfilling (SLIDE 23) had been prohibited 2 years ago! Germans have to pay for disposal of unsorted trash and separate trash are taken for free. Unfortunately, there are enough other problems in Russia, so our government don't pay any attention to environmental problem. But we shouldn't forget if each of us try to reduce, reuse, recycle now it will have great consequences in the future. And I'll show you how to start. Brand in green is a very informative site. There is a detailed instruction how to separate your waste. Greenpeace.ru shows you where you can leave your sorted waste in Moscow