STUDENT:Well, my group has been doing a project on how household waste is recycled in Britain.

学生：好的，我的团队最近做了一个关于家庭垃圾如何在英国回收的项目。

We were quite shocked to discover that only 9% of people here in the UK make an effort to recycle their household waste.

我们很吃惊的发现在英国只有9%的人在努力回收家庭的垃圾。

This is a lower figure than in most other European countries, and needs to increase dramatically in the next few years if the government is going to meet its recycling targets.

这比其他大多数欧洲国家的数据要低，如果政府想达到它的回收目标，需要在未来几年努力提升。

The agreed targets for the UK mean that by 2008 we must reduce our carbon dioxide emissions by 12.5%, compared with 1990.

英国约定的目标是截止到2008年，我们必须比1990年减少12.5%二氧化碳的排放。

And recycling can help to achieve that goal, in two main ways: the production of recycled glass and paper uses much less energy than producing them from virgin materials, and also recycling reduces greenhouse gas emissions from landfill sites and incineration plants.

回收可以从两方面帮助达到这个目标：用回收的的玻璃和纸张生产使用的能量比从原材料生产少得多，而且回收可以从垃圾填埋和焚烧厂减少温室气体排放。

As part of our project, we carried out a survey of people in the street, and the thing that came up over and over again is that people don't think it's easy enough to recycle their waste.

作为我们项目的一部分，我们在街头开展了调查，人们一遍遍重复的事情是他们认为回收垃圾不够容易。

One problem is that there aren't enough 'drop-off' sites, that is, the places where the public are supposed to take their waste.

一个问题是他们认为没有足够的丢弃点，也就是公众应该把垃圾带到的地方。

We also discovered that waste that's collected from householders is taken to places called 'bring banks', for sorting and baling into loads.

我们还发现，从家里收集来的垃圾经常被运到叫做“收集银行”的地方，在这里被分类和整理装载。

One problem here is taking out everything that shouldn't have been placed in the recycling containers: people put all sorts of things into bottle banks, like plastic bags and even broken umbrellas.

这里的一个问题是要回收容器里不属于这类的东西拣出去。人们什么都往瓶子银行里放，比如塑料袋，甚至破雨伞。

All this has to be removed by hand.

所有这些都要手动移除。

Another difficulty is that toughened glass used for cooking doesn't fully melt at the temperature required for other glass, and so that also has to be picked out by hand.

另一个困难是用于烹饪的强化玻璃在其他玻璃熔化的温度不会彻底融化，所以这也要被手动拣出。

Glass is easy to recycle because it can be reused over and over again without becoming weaker.

玻璃容易回收因为它可以被一遍遍使用，而不会变弱。

Two million tons of glass is thrown away each year, that is, seven billion bottles and jars; but only 500,000 tons of that is collected and recycled.

每年要扔掉2,000,000吨玻璃，也就是7,000,000,000各瓶子和罐子，但其中只有500,000吨被收集和回收。