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What do we do with them? This process is able not just to recycle them, but to recycle them infinitely.
那我們能做些什么呢？我們不僅應該讓水瓶可以回收再利用，而且應該讓這個過程無限進行下去。
Why is that interesting? Because when we think about reusing and recycling,
為什么這點很有意思呢？因為像那些能重復利用和回收再利用的東西，
metals, glass, things like that, can be recycled as many times as you like.
比如金屬、玻璃等等，都能被回收再利用很多次。
There's metal in your car that may well have come from a 1950s Oldsmobile,
比如你的汽車的金屬配件，可能來自19世紀50年代的奧爾茲莫比爾汽車，
because you can recycle it infinitely with no loss of performance.
因為你可以無限地回收這些金屬，沒有一點損耗。
Plastics offer about once or twice of recycling, whether it's a bottle, whether it's a chair -- whatever it is, if it's carpet,
而塑料只能被回收再利用一到兩次，不管是塑料水瓶，還是塑料椅子，不論是什么，還比如地毯，
after two times of recycling, whether it goes back into another chair, etc, it tends to lose strength, it's no longer of any use.
如果它被回收過兩次后，不論被用來制作椅子還是其他東西，它的強度都會降低，不能再被用來制作任何東西了。
This, though, just using a few enzymes, is able to recycle it infinitely.
然而我們可以利用酶，讓塑料可以無限回收再利用。
I take a bottle or a chair or some other plastic product,
比如，我可以拿塑料瓶，塑料椅或其他塑料制品，
I basically put it in with a few enzymes, they break it apart,
在里面加入一些酶，酶會將它們分解成
they basically put it back into its original molecules. And then from those molecules, you can build another chair or carpet or bottle.
最原始的分子形態。之后，用這些分子重新制作塑料椅、地毯和塑料水瓶。
So, the cycle is infinite. The advantage with that, of course, is that
所以，這可以是個無限循環。當然，這樣做的優點是，
you have potentially zero loss of material resources. Again, the perfect idea of thrift.
你不會浪費任何物質資源。再強調一次，這是一個節儉的好方法。
So in conclusion, I just want to have you think about -- if you make anything, if you're any part of a design firm,
總結一下，我想讓大家思考，如果你需要制作什么東西，如果你是設計公司的一員，
if you basically are refurbishing your house -- any aspect where you make something,
如果你需要翻修你的房子，不論你想做什么東西，
think about how that product could potentially be used as a second life, or third life or fourth life.
都請想一想，這個產品二次利用，三次利用，四次利用后都能拿來做什么。
Design in the ability for it to be taken apart.
產品應該被設計成易被分解的。
That, to me, is the ultimate thrift, and I think that's basically what my grandmother would love.
我認為這就是終極的節儉，我想這會是我祖母希望看到的。
