Do you know the difference? Match the words with their definition.
1. Garbage
2. Litter
3. Rubbish
4. Trash
5. Waste
a) Something in a crumbled or broken condition
b) An unwanted by-product of a manufacturing process
c) Food waste, discarded or useless material
d) An untidy accumulation of objects lying about
e) Useless or rejected matter
Choose one of the words above to complete the sentences.
✄ I don’t like their house – it’s always full of ______________.
✄ The main problem of ecology today is thousands of tons of industrial ____________.
✄ She always leaves a lot of ________________ in the kitchen.
✄ In Singapore a person throwing ______________ on the road may be put to prison.
✄ Sometimes it seems that _______________ accumulates itself.