Spain Starts New Deposit System: Get 10 Cents Back for Recycling Packaging
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A new law has started in Spain. It is about drink packaging, like bottles and cans.
Now, people must pay 10 extra cents when they buy some drinks. This is called a deposit.
You can get your 10 cents back. You must take the empty packaging to a shop and recycle it.
The supermarket Mercadona has explained how this works for its shoppers.
Bars and restaurants will also add this extra cost. This starts on 12 August.
In AndalucÃa, people must also pay more for drinks now. But they can get the money back too.
The goal of the law is to help the environment. More recycling means less rubbish.
Vocabulary15 words
- deposit
- money you pay first, and get back later
- recycle
- to use something again, like plastic or glass
- environment
- nature; the world around us
- packaging
- the box, bottle, or can around a product
- law
- a rule that everyone must follow
- extra
- more than usual; added
- supermarket
- a big shop for food and drinks
- shopper
- a person who buys things
- goal
- what you want to do or get
- rubbish
- things people throw away
- system
- a way of doing something
- empty
- with nothing inside
- cost
- how much money something is
- explain
- to tell how something works
- cent
- a small part of money, like one penny
Quiz
Answer key
1. 10 cents 2. By recycling the empty packaging 3. True
Fill-in-the-blank listening
Play the audio again and fill in the missing words as you listen.
A new law has started in Spain. It is about drink _____, like bottles and cans.
Now, people must pay 10 extra _____ when they buy some drinks. This is called a _____.
You can get your 10 cents back. You must take the empty packaging to a shop and _____ it.
The _____ Mercadona has explained how this works for its shoppers.
Bars and restaurants will also add this extra cost. This starts on 12 _____.
In AndalucÃa, people must also pay more for drinks now. But they can get the money back too.
The goal of the law is to help the _____. More recycling means less _____.