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

假如你买了一些制品，上面标明“可生物降解”。

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的制品从环境中剔除出来。

These are ongoing projects, but 2019 will be a year of massively reduced plastic consumption.

这些是正在进行的项目，但是2019年将会成为大规模减制品消耗的一年。

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

去年，购买新的制品比购买回收的制品便宜得。

Canada is banning six types of plastics.

加拿大将禁止六类制品。

The plastics include grocery bags, stir sticks, six-pack rings, reusable food containers, straws and utensils.

这些制品包括食品，棒、提扣、可重复利用食物容器，吸管和餐具。

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

煤和石油是制品的重要原。

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

每年，人们生产600亿吨的制品。

They help plastic products resist heat or oil.

它们帮助制品抗热或者抗油。

If these chemicals from plastic cause this much damage in animals, what about people?

如果制品中的这些化学物质会对动物造成如此大的伤害，那么对人类又会怎样呢？

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

而且制品很便宜，不过现在我完全不想再买制品了。

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

然而，海龟体内的许制品却与水母毫无相似之处。

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，床垫可以回收再制成制品。

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

一个制品平均需要500到1000年的时间才能分解。

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

从50年代开始，这家为孩子们生产制品，比如玩具汽车或呼啦圈。

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

好吧，现在我们还大量使用制品了。

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

它们是由种制品和工业垃圾分解而成。

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

现在，禁止使用制品（比如吸管和）成了非常流行的做法。

Cities, municipalities and companies like Starbucks and Marriott have announced bans are on the way.

无论是城市、直辖市还是星巴克、万豪酒店这样的公司，都纷纷宣布会禁止使用制品。

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

解决这个问题的方法就是用制品。