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Hello, this is Six Minute English from BBC Learning English.
I'm Neil.
And I'm Georgina.
Sorry I was late today, Georgina.
I'd forgotten to take the recycling bins out before the rubbish collection this morning.
I seem to have more and more plastic packaging each week.
Actually, that's the topic of our program.
With more and more household waste being either incinerated, that's burned, or being buried underground, we'll be asking, is the recycling system broken?
China used to accept 55% of the world's plastic and paper scrap, another word for unwanted waste, or in other words, rubbish.
That included waste sent over from Britain, but in 2018 it stopped taking any more.
Other countries like Indonesia and Vietnam took over China's waste processing role, but they too are now sending much of the scrap back, arguing it is contaminated and is
harming their own environments.
This has created major problems for countries in the West,
who traditionally relied on others to process their recycling waste.
And the problem isn't going in fact, we are creating more household waste than ever.
So here's my quiz question.
On average,
how many kilograms of household waste were generated per person in the UK last year?