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Listen to a piece of news and fill in the gaps with a word or a short phrase

Most of our clothes will never get recyled and 99% end up being dumped and burned in
landfills. At present, the world can no longer (1)_______ the huge amount of clothing
produced each year.

Luckily, an Italian town called Prato has mastered a method to turn (2)_________ into new
clothes.

In Prato, there are hundreds of companies, each of which specializes in one specific aspect
of the process, ranging from spinning, (3)________ to designing.
Although it may sound incredible, Prato processes 15 percent of all (4)____________ in the
world.

Once the old clothes get sent to the recycling companies, they are sorted either by colour or
by material, and then they are put in a carbonizing machine to (5)_____________.

After being washed in a giant washing machine, they are (6)__________, cleaned and dried.
Finally, old clothes are transformed into fine (7)____________ and will be bought by fashion
brands to make new clothes.

Though some may say we are using trash to make clothes, (8)___________ is beneficial to
the environment. Firstly, CO2 emissions have been reduced by 50%. Secondly, fewer
animals are killed to get wool. Moreover, (9)_________ can be completely eliminated.

It is clear that these things can be applied on a global scale and the methods which have
been (10)__________ for more than a century could be a possible solution to sustainable
fashion.

KEY

1. absorb
2. old scraps
3. weaving
4. recycled clothes
5. eliminate impurities
6. shredded
7. fluffy wool fibres
8. recycling wool
9. dyes
10. honed