Alternately some companies are now producing biodegradable teabags.

有一些公司制造可以生物降解的茶包，可以用它们作为替代物。

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

假如你买了一些塑料制品，上面标明“可生物降解”。

So we can make biodegradable plastic effectively from seaweed.

我们可以有效地利用海藻，制作可生物降解的塑料。

PLA is one of the few types of plastic suitable not only for 3-D printers but for some biodegradable medical items such as suture threads.

PLA是少数不仅适合3D打印机，而且适合制造缝合线等可生物降解医疗用品的塑料料之一。

We could make all sorts of things out of spider silk, like bridge cables, bulletproof vests, airplanes, and biodegradable bottles.

我们可以用蜘蛛丝做各种各样的东西，比如桥缆、防弹背心、飞机、可降解的瓶子等等。

After the kelp grows, the biodegradable buoy will dissolve and loses it buoyancy and by then the kelp is so heavy that it sinks to the ocean bottom, sequestering the carbon for a thousand plus years.

海带生长后，可降解的浮标就会溶解并失去浮力，那时海带就重得沉入海底，将二氧化碳封存一千多。

The same Thomson Reuters report I told you about earlier says that by 2025 biodegradable materials based on cellulose will replace plastic packaging for all purposes.

到2025，可降解的生物纤维素料将代替各种用途的塑料制品。

There are also green burials that use special materials, such as biodegradable caskets, urns that sprout trees, and burial suits that grow mushrooms.

其他也有环保埋葬採用料，例如生物可分解的棺，能发芽成树的瓮，以及会长蘑菇的丧服。

The seedling is placed inside the biodegradable container and then planted into the soils.

幼苗被放置在可生物降解的容器内，然后种植到土壤中。

Worse, biodegradable plastics designed to disintegrate, are increasingly common.

更糟的是，设计为可自行分解的可生物降解塑料正在日益普遍。

But if the technology was discovered back in the 1970s, why aren't these biodegradable bags being used in every country by now?

但是如果这种技术早在二十世纪七十代就被发现了，这种可降解的塑料袋现在不应该已经在被世界各国使用了吗？

Scientists at Tel Aviv University say they have created a biodegradable plastic from marine microorganisms.

拉维夫大学的科学家表示，他们已经用海洋微生物制造了一种可生物降解的塑料。

The coffee chain says that it will transition to biodegradable straws and specially designed lids.

该连锁店称他们将改用生物可降解吸管，以及专门设计的杯盖。

And that's true for both traditional and biodegradable plastics.

传统塑料和可降解塑料都是如此。

In 2008, Gaillard launched the Ethical Coffee Company, which sold biodegradable capsules for Nespresso machines.

2008，盖拉德成立了道德咖啡公司，该公司为奈斯派索咖啡机销售可生物降解的胶囊。

" Our best-sellers include eco-friendly toys, biodegradable waste products, and recyclable packages for catteries."

“我们最畅销的产品包括环保玩具、可生物降解的废物和可回收的猫食包装。”

It's naturally antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, and of course, biodegradable, which is part of why honey may be particularly helpful when incorporated into sensitive treatments like bone grafts, burn dressings, and dental implants.

它天然具有抗菌、抗炎性，当然还有可生物降解性，这也是为什么蜂蜜在融入骨移植、烧伤敷料和牙种植体等敏感治疗中可能别有帮助的部分原因。

Passed a law to ban microplastics from cosmetics and cotton buds. Beginning in 2019, it will be prohibited to use cotton buds that do not have biodegradable sticks and regarding microplastics, beginning in 2020, cosmetics containing microplastics will be prohibited.

通过了一项法律，禁止化妆品和棉签中添加微塑料。2019初，将禁止不可降解的棉签棒和含有微塑料的棉签的使用，从2020开始，将禁止含有微塑料的化妆品的使用。

It's possible we can decrease further impacts by switching to biodegradable plastics, dumping less plastic in the oceans, or cleaning up the patches of sea most strewn with plastic.

我们有可能可以藉着改用可生物分解塑胶、丢较少塑胶到海洋里来减低更长远的冲击，或清理散布最多塑胶的海洋区。

And it feels like maybe now there's more awareness of trying to use biodegradable materials, which maybe might be even better for us, let alone the environment.

而且，我觉得现在人们对使用可生物降解的料有了更多的认识，这可能对我们更好，更不用说对环境了。