Summary
They turned the clean land into a special fast‑growing forest called a Miyawaki forest.
About 60,000 tiny trees and bamboo were planted to make the air fresh.
The new forest helps the soil, animals and makes the town look beautiful.
Key Points
4 points1
35‑acre dump cleaned and 22 acres reclaimed.
2
62,000 tonnes of old trash were safely processed.
3
5‑7 acres became a Miyawaki forest with 60,000 saplings.
4
Forest will grow fast and improve air and soil.
New Words to Learn
6 wordslegacy waste
old trash that has been sitting for many years
remediation
cleaning up something that is dirty or unsafe
Miyawaki forest
a special kind of forest that grows very quickly using many local trees
carbon sequestration
trapping a gas that can warm the Earth, called carbon dioxide, in trees
biodiversity
many different kinds of plants and animals living together
leachate
dirty water that can come out of old trash piles
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