这家药店为了让顾客对环境更友好，在药店里放了一个清洁用品回收站

这家药店为了让顾客对环境更友好，在药店里放了一个清洁用品回收站

Humanity is reaching the point of no return regarding ecology. Planting trees is a great solution, but it isn’t a one-size-fits-all deal given the immense complexity of the environmental issues we as a species face.

在生态方面，人类已经到了无法回头的地步。植树是一个很好的解决办法，但考虑到我们作为一个物种所面临的环境问题的复杂性，这不是一个放之四海而皆准的办法。

Plastic continues to be a huge problem. Not only does it take energy and other resources to produce, but also much of it ends up as waste in the various natural habitats around the globe. Bored Panda has already covered a perfect example of how much it affects our oceans with this diver’s first-hand experience with plastic waste in our oceans.

塑料仍然是一个大问题。它不仅需要能源和其他资源来生产，而且其中的大部分最终会在全球各地的各种自然栖息地变成废物。《Bored Panda》已经报道了一个关于塑料垃圾对海洋影响的完美案例。

Bored Panda reached out to SOAP Refill Station to comment on this new eco-friendly movement. SOAP Refill Station is a home and body care product retailer that aims to reduce single-use waste by letting customers refill the containers they bring to the store again and again.

Bored Panda联系了肥皂补给站来评论这个新的环保运动。香皂补给站是一家家居和身体护理产品零售商，旨在通过让顾客一次又一次地为他们带来的容器补充肥皂来减少一次性物品的使用。

A photo of this cleaning product refiller has recently surfaced & went viral on Reddit

最近，这款清洁产品再充值器的照片在Reddit上走红

Image credits: Lord-AG on Reddit

Dozens upon dozens of initiatives are already in place to reduce plastic use, including a washing machine product dispenser to encourage the reuse of plastic bottles. One such machine has been going viral recently.

为了减少塑料的使用，人们已经采取了很多措施，包括洗衣机产品分配器，以鼓励塑料瓶的重复使用。最近就有一台这样的机器在网上疯传。

Image credits: Místo Prodeje

Considering that annual plastic production tonnage is in the millions in the US alone—300 million to be precise—reusing a plastic container just once would diminish the effects of the plastic problem by half.

考虑到仅在美国每年的塑料生产吨数就有数百万——精确地说有3亿——一个塑料容器只要再利用一次，塑料问题的影响就会减少一半。

Croatia’s port city Rijeka is also home to such a machine, except it dispenses food products

克罗地亚的港口城市里耶卡(Rijeka)也有这样的机器，只是它是用来分发食品的

Image credits: TheMayor.EU

Fun fact, the inventor of the plastic bag said that his invention is an eco-friendly response to using paper and cotton, as discussed in this Bored Panda article. However, many people got lazy and nearly all bags are therefore being reused less than the recommended 131 times.

有趣的是，塑料袋的发明者说他的发明是对使用纸张和棉花的环保回应，正如这篇文章所讨论的。然而，许多人变得懒惰，因此几乎所有的塑料袋被重复使用的次数少于建议的131次。

By making plastic bottle reusability as accessible as just going to the store—which you will be going to anyway—will not only save you money but will also save the environment. And other establishments are getting on board with this idea.

通过让塑料瓶的可重用性变得像去商店一样容易——无论如何你都会去商店——不仅可以节省你的钱，还可以保护环境。其他机构也在考虑这个想法。

Such machines have been around since 2010 with Martin Gagne’s laundry detergent machine being one of the first

早在2010年，马丁·加涅的洗衣粉洗衣机就已经出现了

Image credits: CBC

Croatia’s largest port city, Rijeka, is now home to its first plastic-free vending machine that offers anything from cooking oil, vinegar, cleaning supplies, and hygiene products.

克罗地亚最大的港口城市里耶卡(Rijeka)现在拥有了该国第一台不使用塑料的自动售货机，出售食用油、醋、清洁用品和卫生用品等各种商品。

You can even make your own shampoo refilling machine—there’s a tutorial for that

你甚至可以自己制作洗发水填充机——这方面有个教程

Image credits: Log GC

The idea is so good that there’s even a step-by-step guide on how to build your own shampoo dispenser using a Raspberry Pi 3 and a handful of building materials. A user by the name of Log GC has made one available to the general public on his Instructables account.

这个主意太棒了，甚至有一个循序渐进的指南，教你如何用树莓派3和一些建筑材料来制作自己的洗发水分配器。一个名为Log GC的用户已经在他的Instructables帐户上向公众提供了一个。

Be sure to check out SOAP Refill Station’s Instagram or visit the shop if you live in Springfield, Missouri, or the area.

如果你住在密苏里州的斯普林菲尔德或该地区，一定要看看肥皂补给站的Instagram，或者去商店逛逛。