It became much cheaper last year to buy new plastic than the recycled kind.

，购买新的塑料品比购买回收的塑料品便宜得多。

And cheaply, but definitely don't like to buy plastic now.

而且塑料品很便宜，不过现在我完全不想再买塑料品了。

Canada is banning six types of plastics.

加拿大将禁止六类塑料品。

They help plastic products resist heat or oil.

它们帮助塑料品抗热或者抗油。

Coal and oil are important raw materials for the manufacture of plastics.

煤和石油是塑料品的重要原料。

Every year people produce sixty billion [60,000,000,000] tonnes of plastic products.

每，人们生产600亿吨的塑料品。

The solution to this problem would be to use less plastic.

解决这个问题的方法就是少用塑料品。

So you buy something made of plastic and it's labeled biodegradable.

假如你买了一些塑料品，上面标明“可生物降解”。

Well, today actually we use a lot of plastic as well.

好吧，现在我们还大量使用塑料品了。

They come from the breakdown of many kinds of plastic products and industrial waste.

它们是由多种塑料品和工业垃圾分解而成。

On average a plastic item takes between 500 and a thousand years to break down.

一个塑料品平均需要500到1000的时间才能分解。

Yet lots of plastic objects that end up inside turtles have no resemblance to jellyfish.

然而，海龟体内的许多塑料品却与水母毫无相似之处。

It's unlikely and probably unaffordable to take plastics out of the environment altogether.

我们不可能也没有能力把这么多的塑料品从环境中剔除出来。

The mattresses are not made of cardboard. But, they can be recycled into plastic products.

床垫不是硬纸板做的。但是，床垫可以回收再成塑料品。

China will encourage the use of alternative materials such as non-plastic products and biodegradable shopping bags.

中国将鼓励使用非塑料品和可生物降解购物袋等替代材料。

Since the 50s, they made plastic products for kids, like toy cars or Hula Hoops.

从50代开始，这家为孩子们生产塑料品，比如玩具汽车或呼啦圈。

Now banning plastic items like straws and bags seems to be all the rage.

现在，禁止使用塑料品（比如吸管和塑料袋）成了非常流行的做法。

The ban will also apply to food delivery services, which use vast amounts of the plastics.

这项禁令还将适用于大量使用塑料品的食品配送服务业。

This is not the first time that India has considered a plastic ban.

这并不是印度第一次考虑禁止使用塑料品。

There is a way to slow the amount of plastics going into the oceans -- people can recycle more.

人们可以回收塑料品以减少流入海洋的塑料垃圾数量。