世界经济论坛在其报告中指出："塑料袋的首次使用周期很短,由于再用率低下,95%的塑料袋都白白浪费掉了,造成的经济损失每年高达800亿至1200亿美元."
The report is based on interviews with over 180 experts and on analysis of over 200 reports.
这份报告是在采访了180多名专家,并对200多份报告进行了大量分析后提出的.
They estimate that by 2050, the amount of plastics produced globally will increase three times to 1,124 million tons. By then, the "plastic economy" will take up 15% of the world's global carbon budget, compared to just 1% today.
据预计,2050年全球塑料产量将增加三倍,高达11.24亿吨.届时,"塑料经济"将占有全球碳预算15%的份额,而目前其份额仅为1%.
The so-called carbon budget is the total amount of carbon dioxide the world can pump into the atmosphere while still having a chance of stopping short of 2 degrees of global warming.
所谓的"碳预算"是指全球排放到大气中的二氧化碳总量的上限,以保证还有机会将全球变暖的增幅遏制在两摄氏度内.
The forum said the only way to avoid a disaster is to massively improve the economics and uptake of recycling. That means giving people incentives to collect plastic garbage and recycle, use reusable packaging, and encourage countries to drastically improve their waste collection infrastructure, to avoid plastic garbage leaking into the nature.
该论坛发表声明说,避免这一灾难的唯一途径就是大力改善经济结构,提高循环使用率.这意味着激励人们去回收并循环使用塑料垃圾,使用可重复使用的包装袋,鼓励各国大力改善废物回收设施,以防止塑料垃圾排放到自然环境中.
