did you know that the urban waste produced from cities around the world is 您知道世界各地城市产生的城市废物是
enough to fill a line of garbage trucks stretching more than 3,100 miles that's 足以填满一条延伸超过3,100英里的垃圾车
a distance from Florida to Washington every day and things are only expected 每天从佛罗里达州到华盛顿的距离，而且一切都在预料之中
to get worse thankfully some cities such as San Francisco are paving the way and 值得庆幸的是，更糟的是，旧金山等一些城市正在铺路，
trying to change the way we think about trash San Francisco plans to become zero 试图改变我们对垃圾的思考方式旧金山计划成为零
waste by 2020 which is a pretty ambitious but awesome goal and this is 到2020年实现浪费，这是一个雄心勃勃但又令人敬畏的目标，这是
the main nerve center for all of the city's recyclables this is where 该市所有可回收物品的主要神经中枢
everything ends up to be sorted and processed what is zero waste it's an 一切最终都经过分类和处理，这是零浪费，这是一个
idea and it means sending next to nothing to landfills or incinerators in 想法，这意味着几乎什么都没有送到垃圾填埋场或焚化炉
2009 the city passed a law requiring residents and businesses to sort their 2009年，该市通过了一项法律，要求居民和企业对他们的住房进行分类
waste into recyclables compostable and landfill trash Recology is the private 废物变成可循环再造的堆肥和垃圾填埋场
company that handles it all when I started at Recology 23 years ago the 我23年前在Recology刚开始工作时
recycling rate was around 38% today we've more than doubled that so far San 今天的回收利用率约为38％，到目前为止，
Francisco has diverted 80% of it to waste away from landfills and its 旧金山已将其中80％的垃圾转移至垃圾填埋场及其垃圾中
success has been getting global attention government representatives 成功已引起全球关注政府代表
from all over the world visit this facility to learn about how they might 来自世界各地的游客都可以访问此设施，以了解他们可能如何
be able to replicate what's being done here what is the current method of waste 能够复制此处所做的工作当前的浪费方法是什么
management or recycling in your town what we have a lot of in Denver is 您镇上的管理或回收利用在丹佛我们拥有很多
excellent incineration where you will burn the waste do you think that you 您认为您会燃烧废物的出色焚化设施
might implement some of what you've learned 可能会实现您学到的一些知识
one thing that we have heard a lot is a the value of composting we don't do that 我们经常听到的一件事是堆肥的价值，我们不这样做
a lot so maybe we will go home and do more composting San Francisco now 很多，所以也许我们现在就回家，做更多的旧金山堆肥工作
collects 650 tons of food scraps yard trimmings and other organic waste every 每次收集650吨食物残渣堆场装饰物和其他有机废物
day that material is brought here to be turned into compost this is one of the 将物料运到这里变成堆肥的那一天，这是其中之一
most modern composting facilities in North America ok so you can see a bunch 北美最现代化的堆肥设施好，所以你可以看到一堆
of stuff here that people have thrown away mostly like wood here a shoe this 人们扔掉的东西大部分都像木头在这里
flip-flop yeah there's that what's up with shoes okay well there's seven 人字拖鞋是的，鞋子是怎么回事好吧，那有七个
billion people on the planet so there's a lot of shoes we're in a culture here 地球上有十亿人，所以我们这里有很多鞋子
in California where people are moving very quickly and so people make mistakes 在加利福尼亚，人们的行动非常迅速，所以人们会犯错
so we get the the things that are not supposed to be here we get them removed 所以我们得到了不该在这里的东西，我们将它们删除了
right away right at the beginning after the waste is ground up and screened for 在废物被收集并筛分之后，马上开始
plastic and other bits of trash the organic matter leftover gets watered and 塑料和其他垃圾，剩下的有机物被浇水，
aerated a piping system then filters out dangerous greenhouse gases produced by 加气管道系统，然后过滤掉由
microbes in about 60 days the compost is complete and sold to local organic 堆肥完成后约60天即可产生微生物，并出售给当地有机食品
farmers and vineyards how does composting help the environment 农民和葡萄园堆肥如何帮助环境
composting keeps materials out of landfills 堆肥可将物料排除在垃圾填埋场之外
it returns nutrients to farms it reduces the production of very potent greenhouse 它向农场返回养分，减少了强效温室的生产
gases it attracts and retains water like rainwater I mean it's smell like hell 像雨水一样吸引和保留水的气体我的意思是闻起来像地狱
but it's actually very beautiful what you're describing here you know people's 但是实际上你在说的很漂亮，你知道人们的
food scraps which might otherwise the waste comes here to essentially feed 食物残渣，否则这些残渣基本上会进食
these farms and produce new crops well from this facility more than 300 这些农场并利用该设施生产了300多种新作物
vineyards have received the compost and applied it to their vineyards 葡萄园已收到堆肥并将其应用于葡萄园
farmers are using the compost to grow cover crops that pull carbon out of the 农民正在使用堆肥来种植覆盖作物，从而将碳从土壤中吸出。
atmosphere and return carbon back to the soil this is one of the best things we 大气并将碳返回土壤，这是我们最好的事情之一
can do in an effort to slow down climate change people have really heard a lot 可以努力减缓气候变化人们真的听到了很多
about environmental problems they want to hear now a lot more about 他们想听的关于环境问题的更多信息
environmental solution how much recycling and composting is there in 环境解决方案中有多少回收和堆肥
your town let us know in the comments below and be sure to watch this next 您的城镇在下面的评论中让我们知道，请确保下次继续观看
episode about a woman who already lives a zero-waste lifestyle two ears of trash 关于一个已经过零浪费生活方式，两只耳朵掉了垃圾的女人的插曲
in this tiny village are my values are having a really low environmental impact 在这个小村庄里，我的价值观对环境的影响很小
I have to live like I want that and so that's why I decided to change my 我必须像我想要的那样生活，所以这就是为什么我决定改变自己的生活
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