塑料工业是如何“劫持”循环经济的

塑料工业是如何“劫持”循环经济的

What they are calling circular is a sham, just fantasy recycling so that they can maintain the status quo.

他们所谓的循环是虚假的，只是幻想回收，这样他们就可以维持现状。

The Center for the Circular Economy at Closed Loop Partners recently produced a report, "Accelerating circular supply chains for plastic." The report "surveys the current landscape of technology providers that are offering solutions for waste plastics to be repurposed for a variety of safe and high-quality materials."

闭环合作伙伴公司的循环经济中心最近发布了一份报告，名为《加快塑料循环供应链》。该报告“调查了技术供应商的现状，这些供应商提供解决方案，将废塑料重新利用为各种安全和高质量的材料。”

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Currently we live in a linear economy where, according to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, we "take resources from the ground to make products, which we use, and, when we no longer want them, throw them away."

根据艾伦·麦克阿瑟基金会的说法，目前我们生活在一个线性经济中，我们“从地下获取资源来制造我们使用的产品，当我们不再需要时，就把它们扔掉。”

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1. Design out waste and pollution

减少浪费和污染

"Waste and pollution are not accidents, but the consequences made at the design stage, where 80 percent of environmental impacts are decided. By changing our mindset to view waste as a design flaw and harnessing new materials and technologies, we can ensure water and pollution are not created in the first place."

“浪费和污染不是意外，而是在设计阶段造成的后果，80%的环境影响是确定的。通过改变我们将垃圾视为设计缺陷的观念，利用新材料和新技术，我们可以确保水污染不会在一开始就产生。”

2. Keep products and materials in use

保持使用中的产品和材料

In a true circular economy, products are designed so that they can be reused, repaired and remanufactured. This is a sort of an upgrade of William McDonough & Michael Braungart's Cradle to Cradle, where products are designed so that they can be taken apart and reused, recycled, or composted.

在真正的循环经济中，产品被设计成可以重复使用、修理和再制造的。这是对威廉·麦克多诺和迈克尔·布劳恩加特的“从摇篮到摇篮”的一种升级，产品被设计成可以拆卸、再利用、回收或堆肥的样子。

3. Regenerate natural systems

再生的自然系统

"In nature, there is no concept of waste."

“自然界中没有浪费的概念。”

So let's return to the report, formally titled Accelerating circular supply chains for plastic, downloadable from Closed Loop Partners. In the introduction, the authors note:

让我们回到报告上来，正式标题为加速塑料循环供应链，可从闭环合作伙伴下载。在引言中，作者指出:

Plastics are ubiquitous. Found in packaging, textiles, hardware, and consumer products, they offer performance at low cost, often with environmental benefit, for countless uses. Yet most plastic packaging and too many plastic products are eventually discarded after one use.

塑料是无处不在的。在包装、纺织品、五金和消费品中都可以找到它们，它们以低成本提供性能，往往以环境为代价，有无数的用途。然而，大多数塑料包装和太多的塑料产品在一次使用后最终被丢弃。

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The term "circular economy" is a pretence that waste can suddenly be turned into a valuable feedstock and that the recycling rate will magically go from 9 to 90 percent. This is a fantasy.

“循环经济”这个词只是一个幌子，认为这些废物会突然变成有价值的原料，而回收率会神奇地从9%上升到90%。这是一种幻想。

When the industry invented recycling back in the 70s, it was a way for them to avoid deposit and return laws, and to make us all feel good about disposables. Now they have stolen the circular economy to pull this trick off again. In fact, we should be demanding a zero waste economy with deposits on everything and a ban on single use plastics. That's how you solve this.

当回收行业在70年代发明回收时，这是他们避免押金和退货的一种方式，也是让我们对一次性物品感觉良好的一种方式。现在，他们又偷了循环经济的钱，把这个把戏耍了。事实上，我们应该要求零浪费经济，所有东西都要回收，禁止一次性使用塑料。这就是解决这个问题的方法。