Good for the Earth
地球環境、生活環境の汚染の原因は様々ですが、日常私たちが何気なく捨てているゴミも大きな原因の１つです。
とくに、腐らないプラスチックや、電池などの有害なゴミの問題は深刻です。
限りある地球の資源を有効に使っていくために、私たちにできるのはどんなことでしょうか。

TRACK19　プラスチックにはどんな問題がありますか？

　Every year, we use a lot of plastic.

Plastic is very useful.

It is lighter than glass.

And it is often stronger, too.

Plastic bottles don’t break.

And they don’t cut people.

　There is a problem with plastic, though.

It doesn’t rot in the ground.

So it takes up too much space.

　The biggest problem, however, is waste.

We cannot make plastic from oil forever.

What can we do?

　Taking our own bags to stores in the easiest way.

Thus we can stop using new plastic bags every day.

We can buy drinks in glass bottles.

Then we can recycle the bottles.

Track20　身近にある有害なゴミは何ですか？

　Radios, clocks, watches, cameras.

What do they all use?

　The answer is batteries.

Batteries are very useful.

The Japanese use a lot of batteries 20 for every man, woman, and child a year.

　But batteries are dangerous, too.

They are more dangerous than any other trash.

They have poison in them.

This poison is the most dangerous thing in our trash.

TRACK21　地球を守るために、私たちは何をすべきでしょうか？

　Some batteries are as small as buttons.

But remember, they are as dangerous as big batteries.

So we should be careful with all of our batteries.

　Some towns collect batteries on special days.

And some stores, like camera shops, also collect old batteries.

Let’s keep batteries out of the trash.

The earth will thank us.