great big story
The village of Kamikatsu in Japan has taken their commitment to sustainability to a new level. While the rest of the country has a recycling rate of around 20 percent, Kamikatsu surpasses its neighbors with a staggering 80 percent. After becoming aware of the dangers of carbon monoxide associated with burning garbage, the town instated the Zero Waste Declaration with the goal of being completely waste-free by 2020.
Vocabulary chunks to learn from video :
- Tea fields
- Idyllic mountains
- Produces no trash
- Created carbon dioxide emissions
- Zero waste
- A new way of living
- No such thing as throwing something in the trash
- Everything has to get recycled
- In the beginning it was difficult
- She’s a housewife
- The classification system
- Is the key to Kamikatsu’s success
- A huge burden
- A way of life
- Looking at trash differently
Map of Kamikatsu – Japan
Vocabulary in Chunks 
Reblogged this on Mary's English Blog and commented:
Here is another excellent lesson from Vocabulary in Chunks. As the name suggests, the aim is to improve your English by learning the language in groups of words, chunks, as listed below the video. If you don’t understand some of the vocabulary, don’t translate single words. I recommend typing the whole chunk into google.com for an explanation, especially of idioms. Now, watch and listen and learn something about recycling while improving your English.