万花筒 2008-12-18&12-19 吸走你的垃圾
时间：2018-12-02 作者：英语课 分类：万花筒2008年
Traditional rubbish collection. It’s dirty,smelly, labor-intensive, and rubbish can pile up in basements or wooden bins 2. This new system does away with all that and with lots of expensive bin 1 lorries.
"Nobody sees anything happening, there's no bins, there's no trucks on street, there's no curbs 3 like boxes, there is no kids on the bikes trying to fight with dust cars going up on the street. It's safe, it's clean,and it's healthy for everybody."
This is how it works: you sort your rubbish into special containers in your kitchen,then take the bags to one of these.They drop down into the building's basement.Twice a day,a powerful vaccum sucks them away to a collection centre down a single pipe. First,the food waste,then general rubbish,then stuff for recycling, like paper and cans.
In the past thirty years, the system's been installed around the world, from Stockholm to Barcelona, Disneyland to Dubai, but never in the UK. One problem : it's expensive. Local councils make big savings 4 on refuge collection, but they don't pay the cost of installation. The developer here next to Wembley Stadium,says it makes sense partly because this development is the size of a small town.
"We own the entire site, the 85 acres and all the roads.And that's the fundamental that we control the public ground. And we kinda take a benefit of that 'cause our public ground's gonna be great as a consequence of this system."
"And this is where it ends up,the central collection centre.That great big green pipe is the outlet 5 from the underground network and laid in all the roads around here.These great big things are essentially 6 enormous intensive vacuum cleaner that will swirl the rubbish around,the air,goes off to the top.The waste goes down to the bottom where it’s compacted , squashed together and then it (is) shifted to one of these containers where it can be put on to a lorry and taken away."
Environmentally,it's claimed the systems are great improvement,the challenge is to make it work economically.And with the property market in slump 7 thanks to the credit crunch 8, it may be some time before other developments follow this one's lead.
Nikaime , BBC NEWS.
- He emptied several bags of rice into a bin.他把几袋米倒进大箱里。
- He threw the empty bottles in the bin.他把空瓶子扔进垃圾箱。
- Garbage from all sources was deposited in bins on trolleys. 来自各方的垃圾是装在手推车上的垃圾箱里的。 来自辞典例句
- Would you be pleased at the prospect of its being on sale in dump bins? 对于它将被陈列在倾销箱中抛售这件事，你能欣然接受吗？ 来自辞典例句
- In executing his functions he is not bound by any legal curbs on his power. 在他履行职务时，他的权力是不受任何法律约束的。 来自辞典例句
- Curbs on air travel were being worked out and would shortly be announced. 限制航空旅行的有关规定正在拟定中，不久即将公布。 来自辞典例句
- I can't afford the vacation,for it would eat up my savings.我度不起假，那样会把我的积蓄用光的。
- By this time he had used up all his savings.到这时，他的存款已全部用完。
- The outlet of a water pipe was blocked.水管的出水口堵住了。
- Running is a good outlet for his energy.跑步是他发泄过剩精力的好方法。
- Really great men are essentially modest.真正的伟人大都很谦虚。
- She is an essentially selfish person.她本质上是个自私自利的人。