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In today’s throw away society, dealing with the city’s growing mountain of waste is an inereasing challenge for the city countil(市议会)。
Recently. Einburgh is faced with the problem of dssposing of(处理)about250,000
Million tons of waster a year . Dspite different ways to dispose of much of it in a green manner---largely through encouraging tecycling---its aging facilities such as the Powderhall landfill do not have the ability to deal with it.
The Eropean UnionE)has issued a new policy, regulating how such mountains of waster are to hr disposed of. The five councils (Einburgh. Est Lothian. West Lothian. Midlethian and Brders) face fine around $18million a year from 2013 it they don’t inerease recycling levels and rely less on landfill. With this in mind, the coumlls got together with the idea of building a lage incinerator plant (垃圾焚烧厂)to burn half of the waste produced in their districts. Bt the plan fell apart after the change of target levels by a new UK government waste policy which required that no more than 25% of the city’s waste should be disposed of in this way by 2025.
Ater the plan was abandoned, a private company which already transported millions of tons of the city’s wast by train to a landfill site near Dnbar, offered an alternative soution when it suggested opening a huge waste site near Portobello.
Since Powderhall is supposed to close in 2015, it seemed necessary for the members of the Einburgh Cuncil to accept the suggestion. Bt soon they turned it down—after 700 local objections reached them—because it would have meant hundreds of lorries a day making loud noise through heavily populated areas.
That still leaves eth council with a problem. B 2013,only50%of 1995 levels of waste will benllewed to be sent to landfill. Een if recveling large are met, there will still be a large amount of rubbish to be burnt up. De build an Einburgh and Midlothian councils have now decided to work together to build an ineinerator plant as time to find a solution is fast running out.
. The main way of handling waste in a green manmer in Einburgh is .
(A) recyeling
(B) restoring
(C) burying
(D) burning
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