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Ninety-five percent of every single car that goes on the road gets recycled here.
所有在路上跑的汽車中，有95%都會被回收循環使用。
And of that car, about 75 percent of the entire car actually gets used again.
而每輛車75%的部分又會被回收重新使用。
That includes, of course, the old steel and aluminum but then also the plastics from the fender and the interiors,
回收的部分包括，廢棄的鋼和鋁，還有那些來自擋泥板和汽車內部的塑料制品，
glass from the windows and the windshield and also the tires.
車窗玻璃和擋風玻璃，以及輪胎。
There's a mature and successful industry that deals with these old cars
有一個成熟的、成功的產業，專門處理報廢車輛，
and basically recycles them and puts them back into use as new cars or other new products.
對它們進行回收，并重新利用到新的汽車或其他產品中去。
Even as we move towards battery-powered cars, there are companies that claim they can recycle up to 90 percent
甚至我們的電動汽車，一些公司宣稱，它們最多可以回收再利用
of the 11 million tons of batteries that are going to be with us in 2020.
到2020年所生產的1100萬噸電池中的90%。
That, I think, is not perfect, but it's certainly good, and it's getting better.
我認為，這并不完美，但已經非常不錯了，而且還有改善的空間。
The industry that's not doing so well is the architecture industry.
在這一方面做得不太好的是建筑行業。
One of the challenges with architecture has always been when we build up, we don't think about taking down.
其中一個原因是，我們只考慮建筑物建造，卻不考慮拆卸的問題。
We don't dismantle, we don't disassemble, we demolish.
我們不會拆卸或拆除建筑物，只會直接摧毀。
That's a challenge, because it ends up that about a third of all landfill waste in the US is architecture.
這是一個挑戰，因為美國垃圾填埋場中有三分之一都是建筑垃圾。
We need to think differently about this. There are programs that can actually reduce some of this material.
我們應該想想怎么解決這個問題。有些做法可以減少建筑垃圾的產生。
A good example is this. These are actually bricks that are made from old demolition waste, which includes the glass, the rubble, the concrete.
舉一個比較好的例子，這些磚頭是用建筑廢渣料生產的，其成分包括玻璃、瓦礫和混凝土。
You put up a grinder, put it all together, heat it up and make these bricks we can basically build more buildings from. But it's only a fraction of what we need.
把它們放進研磨機中加熱，生產出的磚頭又能被用于更多建筑中去了。但這只是很小的一部分。
My hope is that with big data and geotagging, we can actually change that, and be more thrifty when it comes to buildings.
我希望，我們能利用大數據和地理定位改變這種狀況，把節儉這個概念運用到建筑業中。
