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But in the back of my mind, I can't help thinking:

但在我腦海深處總忍不住要想：

Does any of this actually make a difference when it comes to climate change?

這些真的對氣候變遷有所助益嗎？

you quickly begin to see that climate change is a massive problem.

你會發現氣候變遷是個很大的問題

So is my reusable bag really going to change the world?

所以，我的環保袋真的能夠改變世界嗎？

This is all of my trash from the past four years.

She runs a website where she gives tips and answers questions about living a zero-waste life.

她經營一個提供「零廢棄物」生活點子並幫大家解決疑難雜症的網站

Okay, so you've got tiny little ends and bits and things…

好，你有這些又小又少的廢棄物

Are you really telling me that everything else that you use for four years—

你真的要告訴我你這四年所用的每樣東西都---

Totally, is compostable, infinitely reusable, or 100% easily recyclable.

絕對的，能變成堆肥，可無限再利用，或是能百分之百再生

You may look at the extremely eco-friendly way Lauren is living and find it inspiring.

你可以看見 Lauren 過著非常環保的生活方式，這非常令人佩服

Or maybe, like me, you're totally skeptical.

也或者，你和我一樣抱持懷疑的態度

But a lot of what she's doing is actually pretty simple.

不過她所做的大部分都不難做到

When she wants coffee, she brings her own cup.

當她想喝咖啡，她用她自己帶的杯子

Or let's say she wants to buy a pastry; she'll put it into a reusable cotton bag.

或是當她想買糕點的時候，她會用可重複使用的棉袋

用安全剃刀而不是那種塑膠製的

There's all this disposable stuff in our lives that we're not even thinking about.

我們生活中充斥著一大堆這種一次性的可拋式商品

And what Lauren's done is find some easy substitutes.

而 Lauren 所做的只是找到簡單的替代品

所有東西最後都進到這個玻璃罐裡了

and this was like, four years ago, right when I started.

That was, that was my weekend at Dad's house.

那是一個周末，在我爸的房子裡

No, actually someone sent that to me in the mail.

不會，事實上那是有人寄給我的

The EPA isn't up in arms about plastic straws.

環保局並沒有因為塑膠吸管而發愁

But you can see how these little bits of waste can really add up.

但是你可以看見這些廢棄物是如何一點點累積起來

The United States is the No. 1 trash-producing country in the world.

美國是世界上最會製造垃圾的國家

如果每個國家都像美國這樣過生活

we'd need over four Earths to make all the stuff we consume.

我們就需要四個地球來裝我們消耗出來的東西

Do you think little things make a big difference?

你認為小事情就能做出大改變嗎？

If you reduce single-use coffee cups from your routine and you're a daily coffee drinker,

如果你減少掉每天早上用來裝咖啡的那一個紙杯

that's a massive shift toward a more sustainable future.

就能朝向永續的未來邁近非常大的一步

And good policy can encourage this kind of shift.

Americans throw away about 100 billion a year.

美國人每年丟掉大約一千億個塑膠袋

Three communities have found that if you offer a plastic bag for free,

有三個社區發現如果你提供一個免費的塑膠袋

But if you charge 10 cents for a bag, only 16 percent take it.

但如果每一個塑膠袋要收取十分錢的話，就只有 16% 的人會用

It's subtle, but this small fee makes people question whether they really need a bag.

這看起來沒甚麼，但是收取這小小的費用會讓人們考慮自己是否確實需要一個塑膠袋

And it reminds people to bring their own.

Communities across the country are beginning to adopt this policy,

全國各地的社區都開始採用這項政策

如果紐約市收取使用塑膠袋的費用

we could save roughly 7 billion plastic bags a year.

我們一年可以減少大約70億個塑膠袋的使用量

it can be really hard to do the right thing.

要想推動大家做對的事就變得很困難

Take recycling: in a place like Missoula, Montana, where I live,

拿資源回收來講，在我住的蒙大拿州米蘇拉縣

you can't recycle glass because doing so, it turns out, costs my city too much.

你不能回收玻璃因為這樣會造成整個城市過大的負擔

I think this is a fundamental flaw of governments and their relationship with businesses.

我覺得這是政府與企業間關係上一個根本的缺陷

Businesses aren't held accountable for products that they're putting into the waste stream.

企業沒有為他們所製造出來的大量廢棄物負起責任

So they're allowed to sell glass in Montana,

and not have to subsidize any infrastructure to adequately recycle their product.

而且沒有任何配套措施來好好的回收他們的產品

So that responsibility for disposing of that product falls on you,

所以處理廢棄品的責任就落在你們身上

The funny thing is, we used to have a really great system for dealing with glass.

好笑的是，我們原本有一套很棒的玻璃回收處理機制

After you were done with a bottle, you would just return it.

也就是在瓶子裡的東西用完以後，你可以還回去

Companies would clean it and use it again and again.

產品公司可以清洗乾淨然後重複使用

Around the 1950s, companies began experimenting with single-use bottles and cans.

大約在 1950 年代，各家公司開始研究生產可拋棄式的瓶子和罐子

Lots of other things became single-use too.

許多其他東西也都變成了可拋棄式的了

Like Don Draper here, people were just tossing their garbage wherever.

然後人們就像廣告中一樣到處亂丟垃圾

And all this trash started to annoy people.

這些隨處可見的垃圾開始使人們惱怒

Do you remember that very famous commercial?

你還記得那個很有名的廣告嗎？

he's like, going down a river and there's all this waste, and tear goes down.

在河邊看到了非常多的廢棄物，然後他流下了眼淚

People start pollution; people can stop it.

人們汙染了這個環境，也可以停止這樣的傷害

And it's often credited for quote unquote "cleaning up America"

because we were reminded that we need to pick up our trash.

因為我們常常被提醒要隨手撿起垃圾

but it was actually funded by a group of companies,

但這個廣告事實上正是由一堆公司贊助播出的

many of them from the can and bottle industry.

They were worried that states would ban their single-use products

他們擔心政府會立法禁止可拋棄式的產品

because people were getting sick of all the trash.

因為大眾開始對這種廢棄物感到厭惡

which is very powerful, which made us pick up trash,

廣告本身非常震撼人心，希望能讓人們撿起垃圾

which is actually trash that they were creating

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