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CET-4辅导讲义 快速阅读 主讲：苏景龙 补充练习 Passage 1 Consumer Recycling and Waste Reduction Tips The following information provides simple tips on how to recycle and reduce waste as a consumer. Grocery Stores Many supermarkets sponsor redemption centers (回收中心) that will buy back California Redemption Value (CRV) containers for recycling and may accept other materials like steel cans, glass jars and newspapers. Some stores have reverse vending machines, which give you money back as CRV containers are fed into them. Many grocery stores in the San Diego area also have a place to recycle used plastic grocery bags and film containers (plastic canisters that package the film): Albertsons (also take newspaper wrappers, dry-cleaning bags, or any type of LDPE plastic bag) ?Ralphs ?Vons ?Wal-Mart ?Whole Foods Market As for the question Paper or plastic? why not bring your own reusable cloth shopping bags instead. The cloth bags hold a lot more, so there are fewer trips back and forth from the car and the cloth carrying handles are more comfortable on your hands than paper or plastic handles. Some stores even give a small discount when you bring reusable cloth bags or reuse old shopping bags to carry out your new purchases. Tip: If you bring your own canvas, plastic, or paper bags, be sure to ask the store to credit your bill. Many stores take 5 cents off each bag provided by the customer, even if the store does not recycle plastic bags. And if you buy just one or two items, try going without a bag altogether. The store pays for its bags, which means so do you, and in the end, so does the environment. Dry Cleaners Many dry cleaners take back their plastic clothes bags. When you get home and hang up your clothes, keep the plastic covers and recycle them on your next trip to the dry cleaners--rather than throw them away. Some stores will also reuse clean hangers. Reusing by Donating There are many