" I used to see a lot of broken foam plastic flushed to this beach after typhoon, " said Xiao Xiancheng, a Huiyu Village native who works in Quanzhou City.

“台风过后，我经常看到很多破碎的泡沫塑料被冲到这片海滩上，”在泉州市工作的回玉村人肖宪成说。

And they were still in everything from refrigerators and air conditioners and styrofoam.

它们仍然存在于冰箱、空调和聚苯乙烯泡沫塑料等各种物品中。

Because, yes, this sounds very concerning, but, on the other hand, I think about how, like — I don't know — in the '80s and '90s, having Styrofoam was just very normal and that people weren't really even worried about plastics.

因为，是的，这非常令人担忧，但是，另一方面，我想到了，就像——我不知道——在 80 年代和 90 年代，使用聚苯乙烯泡沫塑料是非常正常的，人们甚至都不担心塑料问题。

And at the end, Steve picked up this Styrofoam block that was the iPod, and he was like, " Let's do this, " and he goes, " Now we have to hire you."

最后，史蒂夫拿了 iPod 的泡沫塑料块，说，“我们做吧，”然后说，“现在我们必须雇用你。”

Now he has channeled his self-described obsessive-compulsive disorder into a green, if dangerous, project: as we walk alongside busy Houston Street, Sedaris spots a trash bag filled with Styrofoam tumbling into the road.

现在，将被自己称之为强迫症的习惯变成了一个环保，虽然也有些危险的项目：我们沿着熙熙攘攘的休斯敦大街散步时，赛达里斯发现一个装满泡沫塑料的垃圾袋飘到了马路上。

And using a fork to pick up a piece of broccoli from a Styrofoam plate without driving the fork through the plate is going to be as difficult as brain surgery.

此外， 用餐叉从一个泡沫塑料里叉一块西兰花，而不叉，这难度将不亚于脑外科手术。

He had a Tiffany lamp, an antique dining table, and a laser disc video attached to a Sony Trinitron, but foam cushions on the floor rather than sofas and chairs.

有一盏蒂芙尼的台灯、一张年代久远的餐桌和一台连接着索尼特丽珑电视的激光影碟机，但是房内没有沙发和掎，取而代之的是泡沫塑料制成的垫。

While it can technically be recycled, it's not particularly practical, because a truck full of lightweight, air-filled Styrofoam doesn't melt down into a lot of polystyrene.

尽管从技术角度能被回收，但是不是特别实用，因为一卡车又轻又蓬松的泡沫塑料并不能够熔化成大量的聚苯乙烯。

There's all this existing research evidence that styrofoam and other plastics are bad for our health, for the environment, for the people who manufacture them.

现有的研究证据表明，泡沫塑料和其塑料对我们的健康，环境以及制造它们的人都有害。

We see the usual suspects of plastic lids from bottles, cups, fragments of food containers, a lot of tiny little pieces of Styrofoam.

这里有我们经常看到的塑料垃圾 —— 瓶盖、杯盖，食品包装容器的碎片，还有很多小的聚苯乙烯泡沫塑料颗粒。

The production and sales of single-use foam plastic tableware and plastic swabs will be banned by the end of this year.

到今年年底，将禁止生产及销售一次性泡沫塑料餐具和塑料棉签。

When it comes to shipping materials, its not always the perfect substitute for Styrofoam or other plastics.

说到运输材料，它并不总是泡沫塑料或其塑料的完美替代品。

Similar products run about to cents per plate, while plastic foam plates cost around three cents apiece.

类似产品的价格大约为每几美分，而泡沫塑料板的价格大约为每3美分。

So it would take 3 or 4,000 mealworms to eat this Styrofoam cup about a week.

因此，大约需要3到4000条大麦虫用一周才能吃掉这个泡沫塑料杯。

Cruz Foam is currently in discussions with several American corporations to provide their protective packaging needs.

克鲁兹泡沫塑料目前正在与几家美国公司进行谈判，以提供们的保护性包装需求。

Before 2019, fish farmers at Quangang District used foam plastics buoys or wooden-made tanks and cages – material that's cheap but not durable particularly when typhoons come.

2019 年之前，泉港区的养鱼户使用泡沫塑料浮标或木制鱼缸和笼——这种材料便宜但不耐用，尤其是在台风临时。

Well, those Styrofoam coffee cups are sure going to add up.

那些聚苯乙烯泡沫塑料咖啡杯肯定会加。

So my polystyrene balls are now the stored electric charges in the grid.

所以我的泡沫塑料球现在代表了网格中储存的电荷。

Polymerize it, polystyrene. Make a foam out of it, Styrofoam.

聚合它，聚苯乙烯。 用它做泡沫， 聚苯乙烯泡沫塑料。

It still has like the styrofoam on it.

它上面还留着那种泡沫塑料。