Name: 【TED】邁克-比德爾。我們可以回收塑膠（邁克-比德爾：我們可以回收塑膠）。 (【TED】Mike Biddle: We can recycle plastic (Mike Biddle: We can recycle plastic))
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T07:27:14.000Z
Duration: 10 min 59 s

譯者: wentzu chen 審譯者: Joyce Chou

情態助動詞 B1

And you might find it interesting that I became a garbage man,

程度副詞

原因還蠻有趣的，我之所以選擇這個行業

And I'd like to start at the very beginning.

可能像一般小朋友心中的這套規則一樣

The entire pile is my stuff if I'm building something.

And of course, it's your stuff if it's broken.

Well after spending about 20 years in the recycling industry,

that we don't necessarily leave these toddler rules behind

And let me tell you why I have that perspective.

並沒有隨著我們長大而全部消失

Now a million pounds a day sounds like a lot of stuff,

but it's a tiny drop of the durable goods

一天一百萬磅，聽起來似乎是很龐大的數量

that are disposed each and every year around the world --

that there's about 85 billion pounds a year

that gets discarded around the world each and every year --

and that's one of the most rapidly growing parts of our waste stream.

And if you throw in other durable goods like automobiles and so forth,

如果加上其它被丟棄的耐用品，像是車子之類的

And of course, the more developed the country,

And the reason we see mines is because there's a lot of valuable raw materials

that went into making all of this stuff in the first place.

我們認定它是礦山，是因為這些被丟棄的物品

當初都是由許多貴重的稀有金屬原料製成的

that we figure out how to extract these raw materials

from these extremely complicated waste streams.

the world's getting to be a smaller place with more people in it

一整周的TED演講都傳達一個訊息

隨著人口不斷增長，世界變得愈來愈小

And of course, they want the toys and the tools

And what goes into making those toys and tools

我們大部份人早已擁有的玩具跟工具

It's mostly many types of plastics and many types of metals.

and ever deepening mines around the world.

significant economic and environmental implications

that we're already starting to see today.

所牽扯的巨大的經濟和環境問題

The good news is we are starting to recover materials from our end-of-life stuff

and starting to recycle our end-of-life stuff,

好消息是我們開始在使用過的物品中找回有用的材料

particularly in regions of the world like here in Europe

Most of what's extracted from our end-of-life stuff,

if it makes it to a recycler, are the metals.

這些用過的物品，交給回收公司後

and I'm using steel as a proxy here for metals,

我用鋼來說明整個金屬回收的情況

are going to be recovered and reused for another purpose.

實際上的數據是大約百分之五左右

Now most people think that's because plastics are a throw-away material,

多數人的觀念裡，塑膠本來就是用完即丟

But actually, plastics are several times more valuable than steel.

And there's more plastics produced and consumed

但實際上，塑膠要比鋼貴上數倍

全世界每年的塑膠生產與消耗量

So why is such a plentiful and valuable material

from other materials and from one another.

They have different electrical and magnetic properties.

So it's very easy for either humans or machines

from one another and from other materials.

Plastics have overlapping densities over a very narrow range.

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