--- title: Recycling, waste and plastic — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Recycling, waste and plastic», a lesson of the world course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: It can be buried in a landfill, burned in an incinerator that often makes electricity from the heat, or sorted and recycled into new materials. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/88-recycling-waste-plastic/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / Recycling, waste and plastic # Recycling, waste and plastic Lesson 88 of the world course of Mova's primary school: 23 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/88-recycling-waste-plastic/). - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/88-recycling-waste-plastic/1/) — It can be buried in a landfill, burned in an incinerator that often makes electricity from the heat, or sorted and recycled into new materials. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/88-recycling-waste-plastic/2/) — Rotting food in a landfill gives off methane, a gas that warms the planet. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/88-recycling-waste-plastic/3/) — Recycling works best for some materials. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/88-recycling-waste-plastic/4/) — Glass can be melted and made into new glass again and again. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/88-recycling-waste-plastic/5/) — Recycling an aluminium can uses only about a twentieth of the energy needed to make a new one from rock. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/88-recycling-waste-plastic/6/) — Paper can be recycled only a few times, because its fibres get shorter each time. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/88-recycling-waste-plastic/7/) — At a recycling plant, machines sort the mixed rubbish. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/88-recycling-waste-plastic/8/) — Big magnets pull out steel cans, while aluminium, which is not magnetic, is separated in other ways. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/88-recycling-waste-plastic/9/) — Dirty or greasy things, like a pizza box soaked with oil, can spoil a whole load of paper. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/88-recycling-waste-plastic/10/) — There are many kinds of plastic, and many of them are hard to recycle, so only a small share of all plastic ever made has been recycled. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/88-recycling-waste-plastic/11/) — Plastic does not rot away; sunlight and waves break it into smaller and smaller pieces called microplastics, which are now found from deep oceans to Arctic snow. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/88-recycling-waste-plastic/12/) — That is why reducing waste comes first, then reusing, and recycling last. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/88-recycling-waste-plastic/13/) — A refillable water bottle used for a year saves hundreds of plastic bottles from ever being made. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/88-recycling-waste-plastic/15/) — Food rotting in a landfill gives off methane, a gas that warms the planet. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/88-recycling-waste-plastic/16/) — Food scraps rot into useful compost, but plastic does not rot. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/88-recycling-waste-plastic/17/) — Glass can be recycled again and again without getting worse. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/88-recycling-waste-plastic/18/) — Recycling aluminium cans saves about 95 percent of the energy needed to make new aluminium. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/88-recycling-waste-plastic/19/) — Paper can be recycled only a few times because its fibres get shorter. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/88-recycling-waste-plastic/20/) — Magnets are used at recycling plants to pull out steel cans. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/88-recycling-waste-plastic/21/) — Greasy or dirty items can spoil a load of recycling. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/88-recycling-waste-plastic/22/) — Many kinds of plastic are hard to recycle. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/88-recycling-waste-plastic/23/) — Plastic breaks into tiny pieces called microplastics instead of rotting away. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/88-recycling-waste-plastic/24/) — Old batteries and electronics must not go in the ordinary bin, because they can catch fire and hold harmful metals. - ← previous: [Electricity at home and staying safe](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/87-electricity-at-home-and-safety/) - next →: [Saving water and energy at home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/89-saving-water-and-energy/) - ↑ back to [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/)