Activity 1 You have up to 45 minutes to do this activity. 1. Read the text and correct the punctuation errors. There are 3 capital letters, 2 apostrophes, 2 commas and 3 end of sentence punctuation markers missing from the text. What a waste Why should you care about the rubbish that you produce every hour here's why. Throwing anything away is a waste of the materials and energy used to makett. If we reuse and recycle instead we will not need to use as many of the worlds natural resources. At the moment, most waste in the Uk ends up in landfill sites which are large holes in the earth where rubbish is put. Although most of these sites are well managed, people dont usually like living near them. once a site is full, it is covered over to bury the rubbish and can no longer be used. There is very little space for new landfill sites, so we need alternative solutions for our waste.
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