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The government has launched a nationwide campaign against plastic bags, banning the production of ultra-thin bags and forbidding supermarkets and shops from handing out free carriers from June 1.

People use too many of the bags and fail to dispose(处理) of them properly, wasting valuable oil used in their production, and littering the country, the State Council said in a notice posted on the central government website.

Starting from June, shops, supermarkets and sales outlets will be forbidden from offering free plastic bags and all carriers must be clearly marked with prices.

"We should encourage people to return to carrying cloth bags, and using baskets for their vegetables," the notice said.

In addition, the manufacture, sale and use of bags less than 0.025 mm thick are banned from the same date, with firms that flout(轻视) the rules facing fines or confiscation(没收) of goods and profits.

The State Council also told finance authorities to consider tax measures to discourage the production and sale of plastic bags and encourage the recycling industry, told quality inspection authorities to revise(修订) State standards for plastic bags and set up a monitoring mechanism, and urged rubbish collectors to separate plastic for reprocessing and reduce the amount burned or buried.

Residents in the country use up to 3 billion plastic bags a day and the country has to use 5 million tons (37 million barrels) of crude oil every year to make plastics used for packaging, according to a report on the website of China Trade News.

1. Find in the passage a word closest in meaning to the underlined word “recycling”.

2. What is the government planning to ban starting from June 1?

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3. Why has the government launched this campaign?

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【回答】

1. Reprocessing.

2. The free use of plastic bags in supermarkets / shops. The production of ultra-thin plastic bags.   3. Plastic bags cause pollution and cost a lot.

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