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<div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3124/d5105301-7c55-4221-858c-c769c36efa67_hq.wav' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='US Company Launches 'Zero-Waste' Shopping Model' data-article-id='3636'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='6063'>Environmental experts warn that our planet is drowning in plastic.</span> <span data-start-time='6063' data-end-time='12854'>The world&rsquo;s cities produce 2 billion tons of trash every year.</span> <span data-start-time='12854' data-end-time='20188'>By the year 2050, that number is expected to rise to 3 billion tons.</span> <span data-start-time='20188' data-end-time='29875'>The World Bank estimates that the largest amount of trash today, about 44 percent, is plastic.</span> <span data-start-time='29875' data-end-time='39083'>This information comes from a 2018 World Bank report called Trends in Solid Waste Management.</span> <span data-start-time='39083' data-end-time='43271'>But we often have to buy packaged goods.</span> <span data-start-time='43271' data-end-time='47729'>And often that packaging is made of plastic.</span> <span data-start-time='47729' data-end-time='51125'>Now, that may be changing.</span> <span data-start-time='51125' data-end-time='61250'>A new environmentally-friendly shopping model was recently launched at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.</span> <span data-start-time='61250' data-end-time='70625'>This shopping model, called Loop, aims to replace throwaway containers with reusable ones.</span> <span data-start-time='70625' data-end-time='77500'>This is part of what some people call the zero-waste movement.</span> <span data-start-time='77500' data-end-time='85792'>The main belief driving this movement is that much of the trash we create is unnecessary.</span> <span data-start-time='85792' data-end-time='93125'>Loop is the idea of TerraCycle, an American-based recycling company.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3124/02F481B8-9A02-4C66-9B0D-9BA31BD7D408_cx0_cy18_cw0_w1023_r1_s.jpg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='vocabulary_question question-container' data-question-id=12319 data-hint-location='6063' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3124/what_is_trash.wav'>What is trash?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='things that are no longer useful or wanted and that have been thrown away'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3124/things_that_are_part_of_a_story.wav'><span>things that are part of a story</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3124/things_that_are_imaginary.wav'><span>things that are imaginary</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3124/things_that_are_no_longer_useful_or_wanted_and_that_have_been_thrown_away.wav'><span>things that are no longer useful or wanted and that have been thrown away</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3124/things_that_are_kept_for_a_long_period_of_time.wav'><span>things that are kept for a long period of time</span></div></div></div><div class='multiple_choice_question question-container' data-question-id=12320 data-hint-location='0' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3124/environmental_experts_warn_that_our_planet_is_drowning_in_what.wav'>Environmental experts warn that our planet is drowning in what?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='plastic'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3124/plastic.wav'><span>plastic</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3124/water.wav'><span>water</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3124/seals.wav'><span>seals</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3124/iron.wav'><span>iron</span></div></div></div><div class='sentence_completion_question question-container' data-question-id=12321 data-hint-location='47729' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3124/now_that_may_be__blank_.wav'>Now, that may be <span class='blank'>changing</span>.</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='changing'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3124/blank.wav'><span>blank</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3124/correct.wav'><span>correct</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3124/wrong.wav'><span>wrong</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3124/changing.wav'><span>changing</span></div></div></div><div class='question-buttons'><button class='skip-button'></button><button class='hint-button'></button><button class='speak-button'></button></div></div></div>

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