今天就带你盘一个口语经典话题——Recycling

　　本期Note

　　1. Do you recycle now? Why?

　　想要回答这道题，我们首先要弄清楚何为recycle：回收那些可被再利用的东西—for reusable things；做环保志愿者和遵循一些地方规定—volunteer or follow the policies, 比如在上海垃圾分类。

　　那我们具体可以回收哪些东西呢？

　　✦ clean bottles干净的瓶子

　　✦ cans易拉罐

　　✦ paper 纸

　　✦ reuse plastic bags 重复利用塑料袋

　　而这一切其实是为了回收利用可再生资源，从而减少这些物品的重复购买—try to reduce your purchases of these products and look for alternative。

　　参考表达

　　Yes I do, as much as possible. I'm in Shanghai by the way, so we make recycling as a collaborative effort where everyone participates, and the reason why I do all of these is not just because I need to follow the policy, it also can really reduce the pollution generated by the burning of fossil fuels, so I really think we should recycle the right materials, like if you only recycle in the kitchen, it's definitely not enough. There are so many recyclables at home, office or bathroom that we have thrown away. For example, we can recycle clean bottles, cans, paper, and also we can reuse those plastic bags we bought from supermarket.

　　✦ reduce pollution  减少污染

　　✦ fossil fuels 石油燃料

　　✦ recyclable 回收物

　　2. Did you recycle when you were a kid?

　　这里可以借鉴一些小故事或者儿时的回忆，如做手工、变废为宝等~

　　参考表达

　　Wooo, interesting question. Yes, I did. Actually when I was in primary school, we had a lot of class activities, like having spring outing in the riverside park, and the fee of renting a bus was from our savings of bottle collecting. I mean every kid in our class was obsessed with finding plastic waste in our campus, which was really a hilarious scene I know, but we never felt embarrassed at that time as that was like our first time for being “financially independent”.

　　✦ riverside park 河滨公园

　　✦ a hilarious scene 搞笑的场面

　　✦ financially independent 经济独立的

　　3. Will you recycle in the future？

　　这是一道展望未来的话题。未来会不会做环保回收的事情，就看以后大家是否还有这样的环保意识。

　　参考表达

　　I think the answer is yes. Not only will the recycling policy be trendy in the whole country, but we also need to be aware of the importance of recycling. Recycling the food waste can help us preserve natural resources for our future generation. In this way, proper recycling can maintain the balance in nature since it will save a lot of expense required for the virgin materials.

　　✦ virgin materials 原材料

　　✦ maintain the balance in nature 保持生态平衡

　　4. What kind of things do you recycle?

　　可能大家会觉得这道题和之前讲过的题目有重合，其实这只是题目的侧重点不同，这道题更侧重于生活中你所产出的可回收利用的物品，和个人生活紧密相关。我们可以试试以下的回答：

　　参考表达

　　Plastic spoon. Since I have ordered food delivery a lot these days, they always send me plastic spoons, but I find they can be reused several times indeed. By the way, I'm more into using chopsticks, which have made the plastic spoon a waste totally. I think even reusing your plastic spoon for several times is not enough. The best way to cut it off is carrying your own reusable chopsticks seriously.

　　✦ plastic spoon 塑料勺子

　　✦ delivery food 外卖

　　✦ reusable chopsticks 可循环利用筷子

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