Cotton bags have become a means for brands，retailers and supermarkets to indicate a planet-friendly mindset-or, at least, to show that the companies are aware of 【小题1】 overuse of plastic in packaging.

So far, so Earth-friendly? Not 【小题2】 (exact). It turns out the wholehearted acceptance of cotton bags may actually have created a new problem.

An organic cotton bag needs to be used 20,000 times to reduce 【小题3】 (it) overall impact of production, according to a 2018 study. That equals daily use for 54 years-for just one bag.

Cotton is water-intensive, and figuring out ways of 【小题4】 (deal) with a bag in an environmentally low-impact way is not nearly as simple 【小题5】 people think, according to an environmental science professor at the University of Maine.

You can’t, for example, just put a bag in a bin. Even when a bag does make it to a treatment plant, most materials used to print logos onto them are PVC-based and thus not 【小题6】 (recycle); they’re “extremely difficult 【小题7】 (break) down chemically,” said Christopher Stanev, the co-founder of Evmu, a Seattle-based textile recycling firm. Printed 【小题8】 (pattern) have to be cut out of the cloth; Mr. Stanev estimates 10 to 15 percent of the cotton Evrnu receives 【小题9】(waste) this way.

That’s not to say cotton is worse than plastic. In the end, the 【小题10】(simple) solution may be the most obvious. “Not every product needs a bag,” Comey says.

Demand for the world’s 【小题1】 (smell) fruit has soared 400%, fueled by China’s ‘craze’ . Some say it’s sticky-sweet, others say it smells like socks. Love it or hate it, the appetite for durians is growing 【小题2】 (greed) — especially in China. Global demand for polarizing fruit soared 400% year-on-year, according to HSBC which said it’s accelerated by a “craze” for the fruit in China. “Contrary 【小题3】 global trends, durian demand is surging by 400% year-on-year 【小题4】 (lead) almost solely by a craze in China.”, a report released by the bank on Monday said.

Over the past two years, China 【小题5】 (import) $6billion worth of durians - accounting for 91% of global demand, HSBC’s ASEAN economist Aris Dacanay said in the report. The “durian boom” is largely concentrated in China. Chinese consumers view it not only as a fruit but also as a great gift, 【小题6】 the receiver see the giver’s wealth from at once. Additionally, it has become more common in China 【小题7】 (include) durians as part of customary gifts to friends and relatives upon engagement (订婚) . While the boom in China’s durian demand started as early as 2017, the uptick only picked up from late 2022, according to data from HSBC. The “king of fruits” sells for more than $10 a kilo in China, compared to 【小题8】 average of around $6 a kilo across Southeast Asian countries. And the main supplier of this surge 【小题9】 demand lies in ASEAN, 【小题10】 (account) for 90% of the world’s durian exports in 2022. Thailand alone makes up 99% of total durian exports in the 10-nation Southeast Asian bloc comprising Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.

When a person wakes up in the morning, seven items are necessary and unavoidable in his or her life: firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea.

The saying 【小题1】 (update) recently, and it is now widely accepted 【小题2】 the seven items have been integrated into one thing-a parcel.

The 【小题3】 (adjust) saying illustrates the importance of parcels in Chinese people’s lives nowadays.

Although the delivery industry has boomed in the past decade, and many people rely 【小题4】 (heavy) on parcels to maintain their normal lives, it is easy 【小题5】 (forget) the most important part of the network-the millions of couriers who transport the items to their recipients.

In China, these essential people usually have busy schedules 【小题6】 handle heavy workloads. For example, in big cities such as Beijing, each courier usually collects and delivers 200 to 300 parcels a day, even during off - peak 【小题7】 (period).

They often wear colorful uniforms and ride electric bikes through the streets and communities. People call them “busy bees” in honor of   【小题8】 (they) hard work.

Sometimes, they rush to meet their schedules and aim to deliver 【小题9】 large number of parcels, raising the risk of traffic accidents. Sometimes they work overtime to complete deliveries. Occasionally, they are subject 【小题10】 unreasonable complaints.