39 L4-Why we Recycle

Oxford Read and Discover level 4 Why We Recycle by Fiona Undrill

《牛津阅读与发现》第4关，菲奥娜·安德里尔著

Introduction We all make a lot of waste. There's waste from our homes, factories, offices, and schools. We recycle a lot of our waste materials, but we should recycle more. Do you know why? What do you throw away? What is your waste made of? What waste materials do you recycle? Discover! Now read and discover more about why we recycle waste!

我们都制造了很多浪费。 我们的家庭、工厂、办公室和学校都有垃圾。 我们回收了很多废物，但我们应该回收更多。 你知道为什么吗?你会扔掉什么? 你的垃圾是什么做的? 你们回收什么废料? 发现!现在阅读和发现更多关于为什么我们回收废物!

Chapter 1 Too Much Waste In some countries, one person can make about 5 kilograms of waste every day! Where does all this waste go? Most waste goes to a landfill. At a landfill, people put the waste under the ground. Landfills are very big because we make so much waste. Most waste materials decompose they break down into very small pieces. Food waste decomposes fast, but some waste materials decompose slowly. Paper materials take from two to five months to decompose, some metal materials take from 80 to 100 years, and plastic materials take maybe up to 1,000 years. Some materials, like glass, never decompose. We are making more and more waste. We need more landfills, but there's no more land on Earth for landfills. Our waste stays in landfills for too long, and this is bad for Earth. So we should make less waste we should recycle more things. Discover! Around the world, people make up to 4 billion metric tons of waste every year.

在一些国家，一个人每天可以制造大约5公斤的废物!这些垃圾都到哪里去了? 大多数垃圾被送到垃圾填埋场。 在垃圾填埋场，人们把垃圾埋在地下。 垃圾填埋场很大，因为我们制造了太多的垃圾。 大多数废物会分解，它们会分解成很小的碎片。 食物垃圾分解得快，但有些废物分解得慢。 纸张材料需要两到五个月的时间来分解，一些金属材料需要80到100年，塑料材料可能需要1000年。 有些材料，比如玻璃，永远不会分解。 我们正在制造越来越多的废物。 我们需要更多的垃圾填埋场，但地球上没有更多的土地用于垃圾填埋场。 我们的垃圾在垃圾填埋场停留的时间太长了，这对地球有害。 所以我们应该减少浪费，我们应该回收更多的东西。 发现!在世界各地，人们每年制造多达40亿吨的垃圾。

Chapter 2 Reduce, Reuse, Recycle We should put less waste in landfills. We can help to do this when we reduce, reuse, and recycle our waste. When we reduce our waste, we make less waste. We can help to do this when we only buy things that we really need. We can also borrow things, or fix things when they break. When we don't buy so many things, we reduce waste. When we reuse something, we use it again. When we buy a bottle of water, we can put more water in the bottle when we finish it we don't need to buy a new bottle. Discover! We should reuse our plastic bags. Around the world, people use about one million plastic bags every day we usually use one bag for only about 12 minutes! When we recycle something, we use it to make something new. We can recycle most glass, paper, and metal. We can recycle some plastic. We can recycle things to make more of the same thing, for example, we can recycle paper to make new paper. We can also make something different, like this radio that's made of recycled metal.

第二章减量、再利用、再循环我们应该减少填埋的废物。 当我们减少、再利用和回收我们的废物时，我们可以帮助做到这一点。 当我们减少浪费时，我们就减少了浪费。 当我们只买我们真正需要的东西时，我们可以帮助做到这一点。 我们也可以借东西，或者修理坏了的东西。 当我们不买那么多东西时，我们就减少了浪费。 当我们重复使用某物时，我们会再次使用它。 当我们买一瓶水，我们可以把更多的水在瓶子里，当我们用完它，我们不需要买一个新的瓶子。 发现!我们应该重复使用塑料袋。 在世界各地，人们每天使用大约一百万个塑料袋，我们通常只使用一个塑料袋大约12分钟!当我们回收某物时，我们用它来制造新的东西。 我们可以回收大部分玻璃、纸张和金属。 我们可以回收一些塑料。 我们可以回收一些东西来制造更多同样的东西，例如，我们可以回收纸张来制造新纸。 我们也可以做一些不一样的东西，比如这个用回收金属做的收音机。

Chapter 3 What Can We Recycle? We can recycle most things— clothes, shoes, phones, computers, televisions, cars, cans, paper, bottles, and batteries. There are a few things that we can't recycle— but not many! We can recycle most paper and card to make new paper. We can recycle metal from many different things, like cans, cars, and computers. It's hard to get new metal, so it's good to recycle old metal. We can recycle most types of glass. It's good to sort the glass into different colors green, brown, and clear glass. Factories can only make new clear glass when 99% of the recycled glass is clear. There's a recycling symbol on a lot of the things that we can recycle. There's sometimes a symbol on the things that we can't recycle. We have to recycle different types of plastic in different ways. The recycling symbols on plastic help people to sort the different types of plastic.

第三章我们可以回收什么? 我们可以回收大多数东西——衣服、鞋子、电话、电脑、电视、汽车、罐头、纸张、瓶子和电池。 有一些东西是我们不能回收利用的——但不是很多!我们可以回收大多数纸张和卡片来制造新纸张。 我们可以从许多不同的东西中回收金属，比如罐头、汽车和电脑。 新金属很难得到，所以回收旧金属是件好事。 我们可以回收大多数种类的玻璃。 最好把玻璃分成不同的颜色绿色、棕色和透明玻璃。 工厂只有在99%的回收玻璃是透明的情况下才能生产新的透明玻璃。 很多我们可以回收的东西上都有回收标志。 有时候，我们不能回收的东西上有一个符号。 我们必须以不同的方式回收不同类型的塑料。 塑料上的回收标志帮助人们对不同类型的塑料进行分类。