Vocabulary:
initiative: a project, usually for the benefit of the community
ducting: plastic tubes to protect electrical wires
exporter: a business which sells things overseas
rubbish: trash
Grammar:
What is an appositive? An appositive is a little noun phrase that defines the previous noun phrase in the middle of a sentence. “Another company, Second Life Plastics in Levin, is using soft plastic to manufacture ducting for cables.”
Answers:
If you are living in New Zealand, you may have noticed that only a few things can go into your recycling bin on rubbish collection days. Plastic bottles, paper, glass and cans can all be put in the recycling, but not soft plastic wrapping, such as plastic bags, because they are difficult to recycle.
The Packaging Forum is a group led by New Zealand businesses to promote recycling. They are responsible for an initiative called The Soft Plastic Recycling Scheme which has been supporting small companies to put soft plastics to use.
One of these businesses, called Future Post, has started making fence posts from milk bottles and soft plastics with the support of New Zealand dairy exporter Fonterra.
Another company, Second Life Plastics in Levin, is using soft plastic to manufacture ducting for cables.
However, collection of soft plastics is not done through the weekly rubbish collection. If you want to help with this recycling, you will need to bring your soft plastic waste to a recycling collection point at your supermarket or The Warehouse.
addendum: in reading through this after publishing, I noticed that sometimes I treat “plastic” as a plural noun, and other times as a non-countable noun. Ideally, I should choose one or the other. “Plastics” would mean “a variety of types of plastic” and “plastic” would mean “all plastics”.