IELTS Reading Matching Features Example 5

B. The situation is far worse for older or less stringent dump sites. If uncontrolled fires are allowed to burn through these landfill areas, other toxic chemicals such as lead and cadmium are released. In the USA for example, Datatek, a research company, estimated that it was 12 times cheaper to ship old computer monitors to China than it was to recycle them. Data on the prevalence of this activity is scarce due to past bad publicity and dealers of e-scrap not bothering to determine the final destination of the products they sell in 1989 the world community established the Basel Convention on the Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Waste for final Disposal to stop the industrialized nations of the OECD from dumping their waste on and in less-developed countries.

1. CleanCo
2. Datatek States
3. Keystone
4. CleanCo

For the second question, the answer is in the second para, third line; “Datatek states, ‘it was 1 2 times cheaper to ship old computer monitors to China than it was to recycle them.’”

The third answer can be found in the initial sentences of the first para; “Keyston…reported that… Most of these (old, outdated) computers will be destined for landfills (buried), incinerators or hazardous waste exports.’”

For the fourth question, the answer is in the  first para, tenth line; Everyone knows that landfills leak… Even the best, state-of-the-art landfills are not completely tight throughout their lifetimes.