Planet Plastic 地球快要变成“塑料星球” 气候变化仅仅是地球遇到的挑战之一,我们所居住的星球还面临着堆积如山的垃圾和废弃物,尤其是白色垃圾。一项研究说,自1950年至今,人类已生产出83亿吨塑料制品,并尚未找到有效处理和回收塑料制品的方法。我们能做些什么呢? Vocabulary: Environment 环境 Here ’s a staggering 令人震惊的 statistic. Scientists have calculated the total amount of plastic ever made: 8.3 billion tones. Looked at another way, that ’s as heavy as 25,000 Empire State Buildings or one billion elephants. And incredibly, almost all of it has been made in the last 65 years. So what ’s the problem? Much plastic is in th