Text of my presentation for English class part 1 Good morning to everyone. Today I want to speak with you about very important as for me question. About recycling. What is it? For what is it necessary? And how does this process go on? All of these questions I will cover in the first and the most informative part of my presentation. Then we will consider the main idea of recycling policy in Germany. And in the end of my presentation the most important part as I think I'll give you some advices 'how to change the world'. I'll hope you will find the information that I've prepared useful. So, let's start. Recycling is a process to change materials(especially this one which we call garbage) into new products to prevent waste of potentially useful materials, reduce the consumption of fresh raw materials, reduce energy usage, reduce air pollution (from incineration) and water pollution (from landfilling) Recycling is a key component of modern waste reduction and is the third component of the "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" waste hierarchy. I think this definition is just general words about environmental problems and it doesn't give the whole answer to the question 'why is it so important to recycle?'. For better understanding let's see some figures.The population of Russia is about 142 billion people and every person throws out near 445 kg of garbage per year! You may say that in the USA this figure is 760 kg per year. But if you notice these diagrams you will see that about 25% of waste are recycled, unfortunately, in Russia this figure is less then 10%, almost all of our garbage go to landfilling. On these diagrams green color means recycle, yellow - incineration/burning, blue – composting, brown – landfilling, and gray means other ways of getting rid of garbage. I'll give you some more interesting figure to shock you even more. The number of aluminum cans landfilled reached 55 billion. It's enough to fill the Empire State Building 20 times! The amount of wood and paper we throw away each year is enough to heat 50 million houses for 20 years! The average plastic bag can take up to one thousand years to dissolve in the environment. Worldwide human waste is 4 billion plastic bags annually. And the most killing figure is 2.8 km. It's the high of mountain of waste accumulated in the world per year. You may compare it with the pyramid of Cheops. Maybe someone thinks these facts don't prove the necessity of recycling, because the environment can digest all waste by itself. Unfortunately, this person is wrong.