Let’s read aloud first. 最初に声を出して読んでみましょう。
All the glasses ended up in landfills in Louisiana, US and were not recycled. Franziska Trautman was 24 years old. She was called the sand girl on Tiktok as she tried to save Louisiana’s eroding coastline with glass sand. When she knew that glass could be changed into sand, she and her friend started recycling glass bottles. They bought machines that crushed the glass and took out metal pieces and non-glass particles. The people of Louisiana gave money to them to buy the machine. The crushed material had glass, sand and gravel. This was used to save the erosion. They got this idea by knowing that the coastline eroded in Louisiana. To make this better, both the friends started to recycle glass bottles. This was a great idea to create more sand.
end up in (で終わる), landfill (ごみ処理場), erode (侵食する)
Questions:
- Who get an idea to recycle bottles?
- Why did the friends come up with the idea of recycling glass bottles?
- What did the people give them to buy the machine?
- What was taken out of the machine?
- What was the sand used for?
- Were the glasses in Louisiana recycled?
- What is the meaning of “erode”?
- Are the used glass bottles recycled in Japan?
- What is your opinion?