It became much cheaper last year to buy new plastic than the recycled kind.

去年，购买新料品比购买回料品便宜得多。

And cheaply, but definitely don't like to buy plastic now.

而且料品很便宜，不过我完全不想再买料品了。

Canada is banning six types of plastics.

加拿大将禁止六类料品。

They help plastic products resist heat or oil.

它们帮助料品抗热或者抗油。

Coal and oil are important raw materials for the manufacture of plastics.

煤和石油是料品重要原料。

Every year people produce sixty billion [60,000,000,000] tonnes of plastic products.

每年，人们生产600亿吨料品。

The solution to this problem would be to use less plastic.

解决这个问题方法就是少用料品。

So you buy something made of plastic and it's labeled biodegradable.

假如你买了一些料品，上面标明“可生物降解”。

Well, today actually we use a lot of plastic as well.

好，我们还大量使用料品了。

They come from the breakdown of many kinds of plastic products and industrial waste.

它们是由多种料品和工业垃圾分解而成。

On average a plastic item takes between 500 and a thousand years to break down.

一个料品平均需要500到1000年时间才能分解。

Yet lots of plastic objects that end up inside turtles have no resemblance to jellyfish.

然而，海龟体内许多料品却与水母毫无相似之处。

It's unlikely and probably unaffordable to take plastics out of the environment altogether.

我们不可能也没有能力把这么多料品从环境中剔除出来。

The mattresses are not made of cardboard. But, they can be recycled into plastic products.

床垫不是硬纸板做。但是，床垫可以回再成料品。

China will encourage the use of alternative materials such as non-plastic products and biodegradable shopping bags.

中国将鼓励使用非料品和可生物降解购物袋等替代材料。

Since the 50s, they made plastic products for kids, like toy cars or Hula Hoops.

从50年代开始，这家为孩子们生产料品，比如玩具汽车或呼啦圈。

Now banning plastic items like straws and bags seems to be all the rage.

，禁止使用料品（比如吸管和料袋）成了非常流行做法。

The ban will also apply to food delivery services, which use vast amounts of the plastics.

这项禁令还将适用于大量使用料品食品配送服务业。

This is not the first time that India has considered a plastic ban.

这并不是印度第一次考虑禁止使用料品。

There is a way to slow the amount of plastics going into the oceans -- people can recycle more.

人们可以回料品以减少流入海洋料垃圾数量。