Yet 85 percent of materials produced eventually end up incinerated or sent to landfill.

然而，85% 的生产材料最终都被焚或送往垃圾填埋场。

They search the garbage before it goes into the fire.

他们在垃圾进入焚之前对垃圾进行搜查。

And then turn up the heat, it's dropped into the furnace, the fire heats water that creates steam.

下一个环节，调高焚温度，把垃圾放进熔炉，水煮沸后产生蒸汽。

The site where the garbage is burned holds a mix of plastic, industrial, and medical waste.

焚垃圾的地点混合着塑料、业和医疗物。

The high heat makes cement plants a good place to incinerate industrial waste, trash, or used tires.

高温使水泥厂成为焚业料、垃圾或旧轮胎的好地方。

Some gets incinerated or burnt, and about half of all plastic waste goes straight to landfill, meaning it's buried underground.

一些塑料垃圾被焚毁或焚，所有塑料垃圾中，有大约一半直接进行垃圾填埋，这意味着它们被埋在地下。

V.A. officials had long maintained that there simply wasn't enough data to prove a link between trash fires and health problems.

退伍军人协会官员长期以来一直认为，根本没有足够的数据来证明垃圾焚和健康问题之间的联系。

We have chosen some cooperation projects, including a trash incinerator in Phnom Penh of Cambodia and a hydropower station in Namibia.

我们选择了一些合作项目，包括柬埔寨金边的垃圾焚炉和纳米比亚的一个水电站。

If he really can't, he may have just bought a $44 billion trash fire.

如果他真的做不到，他可能刚刚买了价值 440 亿美元的垃圾焚炉。

I'm also finding evidence of burning plastic trash, which releases cancer-causing fumes into the air.

我还发现了焚塑料垃圾的证据，这会将致癌烟雾释放到空气中。

We have very suspicious behavior after the fact, burning trash.

事后有非常可疑的行为，焚垃圾。

They would just burn their trash.

他们就会焚他们的垃圾。

So you're actually getting something out of burning the trash.

所以你实际上从焚垃圾中得到了一些东西。

Now in small town Texas and rural Texas, people oftentimes burn trash.

现在在德克萨斯的小城镇和农村地区，人们经常焚垃圾。

Burning all that garbage created carbon dioxide omissions that became dangerous, and the nature around them was suffering, so a decision was made.

所有那些垃圾焚产生了二氧化碳，那变得很危险，并且他们周边的生态环境也遭到破坏，所以上胜町做出了一个决定。

It turns out that when they’re thrown away and burned in municipal trash incinerators, they can release toxic chemicals.

事实证明， 当它们被扔掉并在市政垃圾焚炉中焚时，它们会释放出有毒化学物质。

According to the EPA, the practice of burning trash can be very bad for both your health and the environment.

根据 EPA 的说法，焚垃圾的做法对您的健康和环境都非常不利。

And in this case, they just burn trash instead of coal, which you think is like, oh, that's great.

而且在这种情况下，他们只是焚垃圾而不是煤炭，你以为这样挺好的。

It's going to be the cleanest waste-to-energy power plant in the world, there are no toxins coming out of the chimney.

它将成为世界上最清洁的垃圾焚发电厂，烟囱中没有任何有毒物质。

Now, there is an interesting debate on the pros and cons of incineration, of burning rubbish instead of sending it to landfill.

现在，关于焚垃圾而非将其送往填埋场的利弊，有一个有趣的争论。