1. What are the benefits of recycling batteries?
Recycling them helps the environment and reduces consumer costs.
2. How do heavy materials get into the water supply?
Heavy metals from batteries that end up in landfills leach through the ground into the water supply
3. How do they pollute the air?
When batteries are incinerated releases some heavy metals into the air
4. How is sulfuric acid dangerous?
These toxic chemicals from leaching through the soil and into the water supply
5. What battery materials are reusable?
Button batteries contain valuable metals, such as silver and zinc. Recycling batteries permits reuse of plastic and metals, which reduces the demand for raw materials.
6. Find 6 new words you want to learn. Write their definitions and pronunciation (Cambridge online dictionary?
land·fill (l
nd
f
l
): A method of solid waste disposal in which refuse is buried between layers of dirt so as to fill in or reclaim low-lying ground. ash (
sh): The grayish-white to black powdery residue left when something is burned. safe (s
f): Secure from danger, harm, or evil. raw (rô): Being in a natural condition; not processed or refined
waste (w
st): Regarded or discarded as worthless or useless stream (str
m): A flow of water in a channel or bed, as a brook, rivulet, or small river.