大学英语六级考试(Cet6)阅读理解辅导材料(18)_大学英语阅读

大学英语六级考试(Cet6)阅读理解辅导材料(18)

　　at the rates 以的速度;按的比率

　　To meet its self-imposed target of zero plastic waste to landfill by 2020, however, the industry is largely looking to incineration, which is highly controversial with environment groups and communities, who worry about how waste ash is disposed of and breathing in emissions from the plants despite assurances from the Health Protection Agency that modern plants are not damaging to health.

　　Greenhouse gas emissions from such plants are also high: equivalent to 540g of carbon dioxide (CO2e) per kilowatt hour, more than gas power and more than 100 times that for nuclear.

　　Instead, environment campaigners want more attention paid to the waste hierarchy reduce, reuse, recycle. To drive this change, the government this month proposed increasing all recycling targets, raising plastics to 50%.

　　waste hierarchy 废物管理体系

　　If enforced, that should encourage innovations, such as more food recycling (which research suggests reduces over-purchasing and so the need for packaging), and the recent development of a new dye for black plastic bags which, unlike the traditional compound, can be detected by the automatic sorting machines.

　　Globally, 47 industry groups have united to fund research to stop plastic getting into the seas. On land, countries could adopt a system used in several European nations where manufacturers are responsible for recovering a percentage of the plastic they make. The idea of producer responsibility is one that people are most agreed on, but no ones sure how, said Kirby.