【听力】如何解决世界上的塑料问题？

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NB:  This may not be a word-for-word transcript. How to Solve the World’s Plastic Problem Plastic is incredible. It helps send fresh food around the world, keeps us warm (or cool), and dry, and enables medicines like vaccines to be delivered safely at scale to billions of people. But it’s also increasingly in our soil, our oceans and the stomachs of birds, mammals and fish. In fact, the amount of plastic on our planet now outweighs all the land and sea creatures currently alive. So, how can we sort out our problem with plastic? These are sights we’re all too familiar with – plastic floating in the oceans or piled up in bursting landfills. And whilst our instinct might be to demonise the material itself, arguably the main problem is how we use it. But first, it’s worth remembering what a versatile and useful material plastic is, making everything from car parts to bulletproof vests and wind turbines.  It was first created in the 1860s, with a noble intention to replace eleph ………………………………