It Is In The bag: Multiple Choice Vocabulary Test (B2)

Sainsbury's, one of Britain's (0)        B        supermarkets, are (1)________ concerned about (2)________ out their responsibilities regarding the environment. They claim that many of their customers want to buy products that don't have a negative environmental (3)________. Due to this, more than 50 per cent of their own-brand products are environmentally (4)________. Furthermore, Sainsbury's have been using re-cycled cardboard packaging for (5)________ on such things as breakfast cereals and biscuits.

Many of their stores also offer customers the (6)________ to re-cycle their own packaging. They have (7)________ them with special re-cycling bins for paper, glass and even shoes. These bins are supplied (8)________ the local authority and are in (9)________ at the front of most major stores.

(10)________ from many other environmental projects which they are (11)________ in, Sainsbury's also encourage their customers not to (12)________ plastic carrier bags, with their Bag for Life and Penny Back offers. In the first scheme, the orange reusable Bag for Life bags (13)________ 10p, and when they wear out, customers can take them back to the store and (14)________ a free bag in return. In the second scheme, customers get a penny back for every plastic carrier bag they re-use. Via this second scheme, they gave £640,000 back to customers last year, of which more than half (15)________ up in Sainsbury's charity boxes.