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
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