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We use plastic wrap to protect our foods. We put our garbage in plastic bags or plastic cans. We sit on plastic chairs, play with plastic toys, drink from plastic cups, and wash our hair with shampoo from plastic bottles! Plastic does not grow in nat

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美国科学60秒 SSS 2012-10-16

Pet turtles can be unsanitary. But Chinese soft-shelled turtles really up the ante on distasteful behavior. They perform a variation on urinationthrough their mouths. Most land-based vertebrates produce urine to get rid of water-soluble toxic waste,

Plastic-Eating Worms May Cut Pollution

Researchers may have found an unusual way to reduce plastic pollution, one bite at a time. It turns out that the common wax worm can eat plastic. Also known as the Galleria mellonella, these worms may help reduce the waste caused by plastic bags. Eac

2007年VOA标准英语-Environmentalists in US Target Plastic Bags

By Ted Landphair Washington 09 August 2007 Every day, American consumers are offered a simple choice when they areby a store's cashier: paper or plastic? But as VOA's Ted Landphair explains in today's searching for solutions report, some communities

The 'plastic' princess?

Finn: Hello, I'm Finn, welcome to 6 Minute English. With me in the studio today is Neil. Neil: Hi there, Finn. Finn: Hello Neil. Today we have a royal story about Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge - or as she is still often known - Kate Middleton. Neil

SSS 2009-08-13

Thin plastic bags are the ultimate throwaway item. Used once to tote groceries, the thin white bags often go on to second lives as permanent pollution and an eyesore. So a host of countries, cities and other governments have banned them or forced con

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Plastic Recycling From VOA Learning English, this is EXPLORATIONS in Special English. Im Kelly Jean Kelly. And Im Christopher Cruise. Today we follow plastic bottles and other plastic objects as they go to one of the largest recycling centers in the

VOA慢速英语2013 EXPLORATIONS - Plastic Recycling

EXPLORATIONS - Plastic Recycling From VOA Learning English, this is EXPLORATIONS in Special English. Im Kelly Jean Kelly. And Im Christopher Cruise. Today we follow plastic bottles and other plastic objects as they go to one of the largest recycling

VOA标准英语2012--Bottles to Flake: Plastic’s Journey Continues

Bottles to Flake: Plastics Journey Continues They traveled hundreds of kilometers before today. Now begins the next leg of a journey that spans the entire globe. Welcome to one of the United States largest plastic recycling plants. On an average week

纯正英语一分钟-plastic

Its amazing to think there wasnt any plastic one hundred years ago. Now its everywhere. Almost everything thats made has some plastic in it. Whoever invented it must be really rich. There are all kinds of plastic. Its pretty useful stuff. I once went

听一分钟英文：Plastic-塑料

Its amazing to think there wasnt any plastic one hundred years ago. Now its everywhere. Almost everything thats made has some plastic in it. Whoever invented it must be really rich. There are all kinds of plastic. Its pretty useful stuff. I once went

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Plastic pollution

Plastic Pollution NB: This is not an accurate word-for-word transcript Dan: Hello and welcome 6 Minute English from the BBC. Im Dan Walker Smith and today Im joined by Kate. Kate: Hello Dan. Dan: Now today Kate and I are talking about pollution. Kate

The Shepherd and the Bureaucrat

A bureaucrat was hiking when he came upon a shepherd tending a large flock. The bureaucrat took a fancy to the sheep and asked the shepherd, If I can guess how many there are, may I have one? The shepherd thought it unlikely the man would guess the e

VOA常速英语2008年-Study Finds Some Plastic Baby Bottles Release T

By Robert Raffaele Washington, DC 12 February 2008 Tests on several plastic baby bottles have found they emit very significant levels of a chemical linked to deadly illnesses in laboratory animals. That is according to a new report released by Americ

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Conflict resolution marked the career of former Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari who has received this year's Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to secure peace in various regions of the world. In this report from Washington, Senior Correspondent A

英文短篇故事（纽约）320 Human or Plastic?

They were at a deli in lower Manhattan. They ordered a ham sandwich with the works. The worker behind the counter was wearing plastic gloves. They watched him put ham, onion, tomato, and lettuce on each roll. He put the rolls on paper plates. He hand