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TSI Reading: Making a Heap of Inferences about Landfills 4 Views


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Description:

The passage implies that landfills

(A)are developed into parks and public areas
(B)should be a last resort for waste
(C)could double as composting sites
(D)are abused by yard waste


Transcript

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Okay sy reading shoppers Here we go Another fine paragraph

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for you Question is well the passage implies that landfills

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what All right So let's read this thing Compost is

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organic material that could be added to soil the hell

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plants grow Food scraps in yard waste currently make up

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twenty to thirty percent of what's thrown away I'm such

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eggshells leaves grass clippings See we didn't help coffee grounds

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and dryer lynch It'll avoid the trash can These heroes

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candice said become posted to help the environment free and

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easy to compost Plus it keeps the girls out of

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landfills where you take a face and eventually release methane

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A potent greenhouse gas Okay well so what is the

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passage Imply that landfills do let's Think about this Well

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we could infer that landfills should be a last resort

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for waste because as the passage states they take up

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space and produced harmful methane Yeah compost or recycle instead

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you know that's the watchword here So it's b should

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be a last resort There's an eagle song That's Really

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good it's all about this sort of beat The emotional

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Ask your parents Okay well loser bowl there's Nothing in

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attacks to suggest that landfills or developed into parks where

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that come from that sounds a pretty unpleasant teo So

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the author suggests composting certain materials rather than throwing them

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away Here she doesn't offer landfills as potential compost sites

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Weird landfill abuse at the hands of yard waste makes

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us think of angry rakes and gardening gloves It's kind

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of a stretch based on the information given so that's

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it it's the last resort for waste poor schmuck in 00:01:29.83 --> [endTime] the composted

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