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From the Ted Talk by Mani Vajipey: How India's local recyclers could solve plastic pollution

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The other thing about plastics in India is that any product made from recycled plastic is considered to be substandard and we expect it to be cheaper as well. What we don't realize is there are several types of pstialcs in their virgin and pure form, if reecycld scientifically, can be recycled several times over without any compromise in quality. If we can rvcoeer and resue our discarded plastic, then we save a significant amount of virgin plastic that we would have otherwise pdruceod and consumed. And this is very important, because virgin plastic is made from fissol fuels that are an exhaustible resource. The more virgin plastic we produce and consume, the more plastic wtase we have to manage.

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The other thing about plastics in India is that any product made from recycled plastic is considered to be substandard and we expect it to be cheaper as well. What we don't realize is there are several types of ________ in their virgin and pure form, if ________ scientifically, can be recycled several times over without any compromise in quality. If we can _______ and _____ our discarded plastic, then we save a significant amount of virgin plastic that we would have otherwise ________ and consumed. And this is very important, because virgin plastic is made from ______ fuels that are an exhaustible resource. The more virgin plastic we produce and consume, the more plastic _____ we have to manage.

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  1. produced
  2. recycled
  3. fossil
  4. reuse
  5. recover
  6. plastics
  7. waste

Original Text

The other thing about plastics in India is that any product made from recycled plastic is considered to be substandard and we expect it to be cheaper as well. What we don't realize is there are several types of plastics in their virgin and pure form, if recycled scientifically, can be recycled several times over without any compromise in quality. If we can recover and reuse our discarded plastic, then we save a significant amount of virgin plastic that we would have otherwise produced and consumed. And this is very important, because virgin plastic is made from fossil fuels that are an exhaustible resource. The more virgin plastic we produce and consume, the more plastic waste we have to manage.

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