VOA常速英语:UN Members Sign Commitment to Reduce Plastic Pollution

Plastic has been around for nearly a century.These days, it’s everywhere especially in the world’s waterways.An estimated 8 million metric tons of plastic end up in our oceans every year.
塑料已经存在将近一个世纪了。现在到处都是，尤其是世界航道。据估计每年有八百万吨塑料流入海洋。

“But we need to act to really address plastic going into our ocean, so we can turn the tide on this huge avalanche of plastic going to oceans.So the biggest burden is us, which is why we need to act on this.”This week in Kenya 200 nations signed a resolution to try and do that.
但我们需要真正解决塑料流入海洋的问题，这样我们才能逆转这股如雪崩般的塑料浪潮涌入海洋。最大的问题就是我们，这就是为什么我们需要要采取行动的原因。本周，200个国家在肯尼亚签署了一项协议试图解决这一问题。

“So part of the resolution will see regions and countries starting to monitor and order it the amount of plastic that they’re put into the ocean.That we’re also gonna see probably another commitment that law will reaffirm the fact by 2025.They will cut the amount of plastic go into the ocean.”
决议的部分内容就是，各个国家和地区开始监测和限制本国流入海洋的塑料量。我们还将看到另一承诺，即法律将在2025年之前重申这一事实。这将减少流入海洋的塑料数量。

An estimated 100000 marine mammals and one million seabirds are killed every year by floating or ingested plastic.And Barratt says we are also being affected because plastic isn’t just in the water, increasingly it’s in our food.
据估计，每年有10万只海洋哺乳动物和100万只海鸟因漂浮的塑料或吸入塑料而死亡。巴拉特说，我们也受到影响，因为塑料不仅仅是在水中，越来越多地在我们的食物中。

“Whether it’s shellfish, whether it’s salt, whether it’s water we’re seeing plastic everywhere now,and so people are being affected deeply by this issue which is why is no longer just an environmental issue it’s becoming a health issue.”
无论是贝类、盐，还是水，在这些事物包装上我们都能看到塑料。所以人们深受这个问题的困扰，这就是为什么这不再仅仅是环境问题，它正在成为一个健康问题。

Corporate giants like Nestle and the food company Danone are joining in the fight, saying they will switch to completely biodegradable packaging by 2020.The resolution to reduce plastic waste was brought forward by Norway, which relies on ocean resources for 70 percent of this gross domestic product.
雀巢和达能食品公司等企业巨头也加入了这场战斗，他们表示，到2020年，他们将改用完全可降解的包装。减少塑料废物的决议是由挪威提出的，该国国内生产总值的百分之七十依赖海洋资源。

Kevin Enochs VOA News.
VOA记者凯文播报。