1. Which company policy is not mentioned in the text?

1. Job rotation.

2. Global expansion.

3. Information exchange.

4. Product development.

2. The fact that the company Staff is encouraged to work on personal projects ...

1. reduces work hours by 15 %;

2. means doing overtime;

3. stimulates inventions;

4. brings about the need to exchange ideas and information.

3. It is true that ...

1. you can enjoy using Post-it notes without staining the material;

2. labour turnover in the company is very high;

3. employees get regular 15 % bonuses;

4. 3M has introduced 60 new products onto the market.

4.The Post-it note appeared ...

1. as a result of carrying out the company’s mission;

2. because 3M could finance its launch;

3. in spite of the properties of the adhesive used;

4. as part of Fry's life experience.

5. It would be wrong to say that ...

1. 3M is an abbreviation of Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing;

2. 3M’s experts meet at the head office once a year;

3. Spencer Silver was able to produce the strongest adhesive on the market;

4. Arthur Fry developed a basically new type of product.

Text 2

In 1993 a campaign was launched by the UK government to reduce the amount of domestic waste. Households were encouraged to recycle certain waste products and to sort and prepare others for collection at specific sites. From there they will then be collected and transported to industrial waste treatment plants for recycling.

In Britain today, when the contents of the average domestic dustbin are analyzed, we find that, in terms of weight, 35 % of the total is composed of paper and cardboard, 22 % of kitchen waste, 12 % of plastics, 10 % of glass, 10 % of dust and ashes. 9 % is represented by metals and the remaining 2 % by textiles.

There are only a few items of domestic waste that can't be recycled. One common example is disposable nappies which, as their name suggests, have been designed to be thrown away. However, a lot of progress could be made especially towards reducing the quantities of kitchen waste which can easily be transformed into useful compost for use as garden fertilizer. Indeed, if more people chose to do this then the weight of the average dustbin would be reduced quite significantly.

In glass products the situation is more encouraging as nearly 20 % of the glass that is bought every year in the country is taken for recycling. This is partly due to the presence of more than 12,000 bottle banks which have been installed since 1977. However, the same is not true for tin and aluminium cans where, according to recent figures, only 10 % to 16 % of used containers are sent for recycling.

It is clear that the quantities of waste will only decrease if efforts are made both by households and also by local, government authorities. Special equipment such as collection trucks must be purchased. Such systems have already been adopted with considerable success in the last few years in several regions of Europe and their value has been proved. However, the question remains: will the UK government's target of a 25 % reduction be achieved in the near future? Only time will tell!