From the Ted Talk by Dianna Cohen: Tough truths about plastic pollution
Unscramble the Blue Letters
Upon educating myself a little further about plastics, I actually realized this was a bad thing. It's a bad thing that plastic breaks down into salmelr little bits, because it's always still plastic. And what we're finding is that a lot of it is in the marine eoirvmnennt. I then, in the last few years, learend about the Pacific garabge patch and the gyre. And my initial reaction — and I think this is a lot of people's first reaction to learning about it — is, "Oh my God! We've got to go out there and clean this thing up." So I actually developed a proposal to go out with a cargo ship and two decommissioned fishing trawlers, a crane, a chipping mnacihe and a cold-molding machine. And my intention was to go out to the gyre, raise awareness about this isuse and begin to pick up the plastic, chip it into little bits and cold mold it into bricks that could potentially be used as building mltiraaes in underdeveloped communities.
Open Cloze
Upon educating myself a little further about plastics, I actually realized this was a bad thing. It's a bad thing that plastic breaks down into _______ little bits, because it's always still plastic. And what we're finding is that a lot of it is in the marine ___________. I then, in the last few years, _______ about the Pacific _______ patch and the gyre. And my initial reaction — and I think this is a lot of people's first reaction to learning about it — is, "Oh my God! We've got to go out there and clean this thing up." So I actually developed a proposal to go out with a cargo ship and two decommissioned fishing trawlers, a crane, a chipping _______ and a cold-molding machine. And my intention was to go out to the gyre, raise awareness about this _____ and begin to pick up the plastic, chip it into little bits and cold mold it into bricks that could potentially be used as building _________ in underdeveloped communities.
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Original Text
Upon educating myself a little further about plastics, I actually realized this was a bad thing. It's a bad thing that plastic breaks down into smaller little bits, because it's always still plastic. And what we're finding is that a lot of it is in the marine environment. I then, in the last few years, learned about the Pacific garbage patch and the gyre. And my initial reaction — and I think this is a lot of people's first reaction to learning about it — is, "Oh my God! We've got to go out there and clean this thing up." So I actually developed a proposal to go out with a cargo ship and two decommissioned fishing trawlers, a crane, a chipping machine and a cold-molding machine. And my intention was to go out to the gyre, raise awareness about this issue and begin to pick up the plastic, chip it into little bits and cold mold it into bricks that could potentially be used as building materials in underdeveloped communities.