Name: 【TED】阿什頓-科弗：不可回收物的回收計劃（A plan to recycle the unrecyclable | Ashton Cofer）。 (【TED】Ashton Cofer: A plan to recycle the unrecyclable (A plan to recycle the unrecyclable | Ashton Cofer))
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T07:12:07.000Z
Duration: 6 min 2 s

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and I was in the basement playing video games.

And as I came upstairs to get something to drink,

and realized that there was something that I was supposed to be doing,

No, this wasn't my family's dinner on fire.

喔不，這不是我家的晚餐著火了，

and it looked like our wooden deck was about to catch fire.

看起來就像 我家的木頭露臺快著火了。

and of course my sister started recording a Snapchat video.

當然我姊也開始用 Snapchat  錄影做記錄。

This was just the beginning of my team's science project.

這是我的小組一開始的科展計畫。

My team is composed of me and three other students

which is an international LEGO robotics competition for kids,

那是專設給兒童的 世界級樂高機器人比賽，

we also worked on a separate science project,

and this was the project that we were working on.

a couple of my teammates took a trip to Central America

And when they came back and told us about it,

we really started thinking about the ways in which we see Styrofoam every day.

我們就開始去想 日常生活中看到的保麗龍，

You end up with a block of Styrofoam bigger than the TV itself.

你收到的保麗龍會比那臺電視大。

Well, those Styrofoam coffee cups are sure going to add up.

嗯，保麗龍咖啡杯 當然會越積越多。

And where do all these items go after their one-time use?

這些東西被用過一次之後 會跑哪去？

Since there aren't any good existing solutions for used Styrofoam,

既然目前沒有處理 廢棄保麗龍的好方式，

almost all of them end up right in the landfill,

幾乎所有保麗龍 最後都會直接到掩埋場，

produces over two billion pounds of Styrofoam,

filling up a staggering 25 percent of landfills.

So why do we have these ghost accumulations of Styrofoam waste?

為什麼我們會有這些幽靈 囤積廢棄的保麗龍？

Why can't we just recycle them like many plastics?

為什麼不能像很多塑膠一樣 回收保麗龍？

Well, simply put, recycled polystyrene is too expensive

而且保麗龍本身有可能受汙染，

so there is very little market demand for Styrofoam that has to be recycled.

所以回收保麗龍的市場需求非常小。

And as a result, Styrofoam is considered a nonrenewable material,

結果是保麗龍被當成是 非再生材料，

because it is neither feasible nor viable to recycle polystyrene.

因為回收保麗龍既不可行也不可能。

that simply ban the production of many products containing polystyrene,

禁止很多含有聚苯乙烯的產品生產，

填充用的保麗龍球、外帶餐盒，

all products that are very useful in today's society.

所有產品在當代社會都很實用。

And now France has become the first country

But what if we could keep using Styrofoam

但有沒有可能 我們可以繼續用保麗龍，

and keep benefiting from its cheap, lightweight, insulating

while not having to suffer from the repercussions

我們有沒有可能 把它變成有用的東西？

What if we could turn it into something else that's actually useful?

我們有沒有可能 讓不可能變成可能？

What if we could make the impossible possible?

我的小組假設我們能 用存在保麗龍裡的碳

My team hypothesized that we could use the carbon that's already in Styrofoam

which is used in almost every water filter today.

And activated carbon works by using very small micropores

過濾出水，甚至是空氣中的汙染物。

to filter out contaminants from water or even air.

So we started out by doing a variety of heating tests,

我們大部分的樣品也都人間蒸發，

most of our samples vaporized into nothing,

其實我們大受失敗打擊 到幾乎想要放棄。

In fact, we were so saddened by our failures that we almost gave up.

即使所有大人 都跟我們說不可能？

when all the adults said it was impossible?

嗯，可能因為我們是小孩， 我們什麼也不懂。

Well, maybe it's because we're kids. We don't know any better.

但真相是我們繼續嘗試 是因為我們認為還有可能。

But the truth is, we kept trying because we thought it was still possible.

就可以幫助環境、 讓地球變成更好的地方。

we would be helping the environment and making the world a better place.

有了對的溫度、時間和化學物質，

With the right temperatures, times and chemicals,

we finally got that successful test result

showing us that we had created activated carbon from Styrofoam waste.

在那當下， 那個一直以來不可能的事情

And at that moment, the thing that had been impossible

我們看見雖然一開始失敗很多次，

【TED】阿什頓-科弗：不可回收物的回收計劃（A plan to recycle the unrecyclable | Ashton Cofer）。 (【TED】Ashton Cofer: A plan to recycle the unrecyclable (A plan to recycle the unrecyclable | Ashton Cofer))

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