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From the Ted Talk by Andrew Forrest: A radical plan to end plastic waste
Unscramble the Blue Letters
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Open Cloze
AF: So when I _____ to really big __________, I say, "Look, I need you to change, and I need you to change really fast," their eyes are going to peel over in _______, unless I say, "And it's good business." "OK, now you've got my attention, ______." So I say, "Right, I need you to make a contribution to an _____________ and industry transition fund. Over two or three years, the entire global ________ industry can transition from getting its building blocks from fossil fuel to getting its building blocks from plastic. The technology is out there. It's proven." I've taken two multibillion-dollar operations from nothing, recognizing that the technology can be ______. I see at least a dozen technologies in plastic to handle all types of plastic. So once those technologies have an economic ______, which this gives them, that's where the global public will get all their plastic from, from existing plastic.
Solution
- businesses
- environmental
- speak
- scaled
- boredom
- plastics
- andrew
- margin
Original Text
AF: So when I speak to really big businesses, I say, "Look, I need you to change, and I need you to change really fast," their eyes are going to peel over in boredom, unless I say, "And it's good business." "OK, now you've got my attention, Andrew." So I say, "Right, I need you to make a contribution to an environmental and industry transition fund. Over two or three years, the entire global plastics industry can transition from getting its building blocks from fossil fuel to getting its building blocks from plastic. The technology is out there. It's proven." I've taken two multibillion-dollar operations from nothing, recognizing that the technology can be scaled. I see at least a dozen technologies in plastic to handle all types of plastic. So once those technologies have an economic margin, which this gives them, that's where the global public will get all their plastic from, from existing plastic.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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