企業的減塑責任
Climate change and plastic pollution are probably the biggest environmental crises we face today.
氣候變遷和塑膠汙染大概是我們現今所面對最大的環境危機。
crisis (n.)危機 複數criseseconomic crisis經濟危機financial crisis 財務危機
This might sound surprising to you, but these two issues are not completely separate, even though one concerns the weather, and the other deals with waste.
這可能對你來說聽起來很令人驚訝，但這兩個議題並不是毫無關聯的，雖然有一個是跟天氣相關的，而另一個則與廢物有關。
issue (n.)議題,(報刊的)期mutually exclusive 互相排斥、互不相關concern (n.)(v.)擔憂,使擔憂,涉及到one…the other 一….另一個
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report which indicates that plastic waste accounted for 850 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions in 2019, urging the world to put more effort into plastic reduction.
政府間氣候變遷專門委員會釋出了一份報告指出塑膠廢物在2019年造成八億五千萬噸的溫室氣體排放量，力促全世界對減塑投入更多的努力。
intergovernmental (adj.)政府間panel (n.)專家小組release (v.)釋出,釋放release stress 釋放壓力account for (在數量上)佔多少emission (n.)排放emit (v.)排放put effort in 在什麼方面投入努力
Therefore, solutions to the world’s plastic problem often go hand in hand with those to the climate crisis.
因此，解決世界上塑膠廢物問題的辦法通常跟氣候危機有很密切的關係。
solution to sth. 某東西的解決方法go hand in hand with關係緊密
One solution is to come up with a more environmentally friendly way to dispose of plastic waste.
一個辦法是想出對環境比較友善的塑膠廢料處理方式。
dispose of 處理掉某物dispose of toxic waste 處理掉有毒廢物
Some nations have decided to simply burn the waste, which in turn produces more poisonous gases and pollutants into our environment.
有些國家決定直接燒掉廢物，但這樣會進而製造出更多有毒氣體和汙染物到我們的環境中。
in turn 繼而toxic (adj.)有毒的venomous (adj.)有毒的(蛇,昆蟲等)
Obviously, this is a problem that still requires an innovative solution. Another method to cut down on plastic waste is to hold plastic producers responsible.
很明顯，這仍然是一個需要更創新解決辦法的問題。另外一個可以減低塑膠廢料的方式是讓塑膠製造商負責。
innovative=creative (adj.)創新的hold sb. responsible for sth.要某人對某事負責=hold sb. accountable for sth.
Customers usually do not have many options other than recycling, but large plastic producers have more means and resources to manage the waste effectively.
顧客通常沒有其它選擇而只能回收。但大型塑膠製造商有更多的方法和資源來更有效地處理廢料。
環保6Rs: reduce(減少), reuse(重複使用),recycle(回收),replace(替代使用),repair(維修),refuse(拒絕)means (n.)方式,手段
Hence, it is only fair that governments ask these corporations to share the burden of disposing of the waste they produce.
因此，政府要求這些大企業一起分擔處理他們製造的廢物的重擔才是公平的。
corporation (n.)企業burden (n.)負擔,重擔