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Why is it important to recycle?
為什么回收利用垃圾很重要？
There are many reasons.
有很多原因。
Recycling is one way to keep waste out of landfills.
回收利用垃圾是不讓垃圾進入填埋場的一種方法。
Landfills are places to dump waste.
垃圾填埋場是倒垃圾的地方。
But they are unpopular.
但它們不受歡迎。
Because they can pollute the soil used to cover them and that's bad for people who may build new homes there.
因為它們會污染用來覆蓋的土壤，這樣對于可能要在那兒蓋新房子的人不好。
Recycling also reuses valuable raw materials, such as aluminum and paper.
回收利用還將重新利用有價值的原材料，如鋁和紙張。
Finally, recycling can leave a lower garbage bill.
最后，回收可以使處理垃圾的費用降低。
Recycling lowers the amount of waste put into landfills, therefore, less money is spent for garbage disposal.
回收減少了垃圾填埋場的垃圾量，因此垃圾處理的花費就少了。
How has recycling changed over the years?
過去的這些年里，回收發(fā)生了什么變化？
Ten or twenty years ago, you could buy milk in returnable, refillable, glass bottles, and many people recycled voluntarily.
十或二十年前，你可能會買可回收、可重復(fù)充填的玻璃瓶裝的牛奶，很多人會自覺回收利用。
Now you buy milk and other products in plastic bottles or paper containers.
現(xiàn)在你會買塑料瓶或紙制容器裝的牛奶及其它產(chǎn)品。
Because of the high cost of disposing of these things in landfills,
由于用垃圾填埋場處理這些垃圾的成本高，
many city governments now have recycling programs.
現(xiàn)在許多城市的政府都有回收垃圾的安排。
How does recycling help the environment?
回收怎樣有助于環(huán)保？
Recycling helps the environment mainly by saving energy.
主要通過節(jié)約能源。
For example, it takes 95 percent less energy to produce recycled aluminum than to produce new aluminum.
例如，生產(chǎn)再生鋁比生產(chǎn)新鋁所用能源少了95%。
Can one person really make a difference?
一個人真的能產(chǎn)生影響嗎？
If only a few people recycle, then what's the point?
如果只有少數(shù)人回收垃圾，有什么意義呢？
If not you, then who?
如果你不這么做，那誰會這樣做呢？
If we combine our efforts, we can make a difference.
如果我們一起努力，就能起作用。
Each of us contributes to the waste problem.
我們每個人都來對解決垃圾問題做貢獻。
All the millions of tons of waste that go into landfills started as an old pair of slippers,
被送到垃圾填埋場的成百萬噸垃圾開始時是某人家的一雙舊拖鞋，
a broken TV set, or a used magazine that came from somebody's house — maybe yours!
一臺壞了的電視機，或一本舊雜志，可能就是你的！
