时间:2019-01-08 作者:英语课 分类:Scientific American(八)月


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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 consumers to pay for them. The largest such country, by far, was China.


The regulations went into effect last June before the Olympics and the track record is mixed. Bai si wu ran or "white pollution" seems to have visibly declined but that may have more to do with tidying up garbage than any ban.


Even government officials admit the thinnest plastic bags, which were banned outright 1, are still in use, particularly in remote areas. Small workshops that churn out the contraband 2 bags are easy to set up and hard to police. Small vendors 3, for their part, seem to think that the rule is no longer enforced and hand them out even in Beijing.


Yet, a survey by the International Food Packaging Association found that the number of plastic bags making their way into garbage had declined by 10 percent over the last year and the Chinese government claimed that supermarkets alone reduced such bag use by 66 percent—some 40 billion fewer plastic bags to get caught in trees, riverbanks or elsewhere. The ultimate hope of the Chinese authorities is for the bags that are used to be recycled.


Plastic bags may not disappear anytime soon but they're getting harder to spot.


 


 



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  • If you have a complaint you should tell me outright.如果你有不满意的事,你应该直率地对我说。
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n.违禁品,走私品
  • Most of the city markets were flooded with contraband goods.大多数的城市市场上都充斥着走私货。
  • The customs officers rummaged the ship suspected to have contraband goods.海关人员仔细搜查了一艘有走私嫌疑的海轮。
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  • The vendors were gazundered at the last minute. 卖主在最后一刻被要求降低房价。
  • At the same time, interface standards also benefIt'software vendors. 同时,界面标准也有利于软件开发商。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
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