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Garbage Recycle In 1993, New York State ordered stores to charge a deposit on beverage containers. Within a year, consumers
Garbage Recycle In 1993, New York State ordered stores to charge a deposit on beverage containers. Within a year, consumers
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2013-04-03
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Garbage Recycle
In 1993, New York State ordered stores to charge a deposit on beverage containers. Within a year, consumers had returned millions of aluminum cans and glass and plastic bottles. Plenty of companies were eager to accept the aluminum and glass as raw materials for new products, but because few could figure out what to do with the plastic, much of it wound up buffed in landfills. The problem was not limited to New York. Unfortunately, there were too few uses for second hand plastic.
Today, One out of five plastic soda bottles is recycled in the United States. The reason for the change is that now there are dozens of companies across the country buying discarded plastic soda bottles and turning them into fence posts, paint brushes, etc.
As the New York experience shows, recycling involves more than simply separating valuable materials from the rest of the rubbish. A discard remains a discard until somebody figures out how to give it a second life, and until economic arrangements exist to give that second life value. Without adequate markets to absorb materials collected for recycling, throwaways actually depress prices for used materials.
Shrinking landfill space, and rising costs for burying and burning rubbish are forcing local governments to look more closely at recycling. In many areas, the East Coast especially, recycling is already the least expensive waste management option. For every ton of waste recycled, a city avoids paying for its disposal, which, in parts of New York, amounts to savings of more than $ 100 per ton. Recycling also stimulates the local economy by creating jobs and trims the pollution control and energy costs of industries that make recycled products by giving them a more refined raw material.
The returned plastic bottles in New York used to______.
选项
A、end up somewhere underground
B、be turned into raw materials
C、have a second life value
D、be separated from other rubbish
答案
A
解析
推理判断题。从第一段的:“Plenty of companies were eager to accept the aluminum andglass as raw materials for new products,but because few could figure out what to do with theplastic,much of it wound up buffed in landfills.The problem was not limited to New York."可以看出在过去,人们只是把垃圾埋起来,没有其他的想法,因此选[A].
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考研英语一
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