Coca-Cola, which reportedly produced more than 3 million tons of plastic packaging in 2017, announced Thursday it wants to “help fix the world’s plastic waste problem one community (社区) at a time.”
The soda giant is doing so by providing $ 5.4 million for recycling programs in cities like Atlanta, Boston, Denver and Houston. In these cities, partners, like The Green Blue Institute and The Recycling Partnership, which receive the money, will work together to improve recycling rates.
“We focus on areas where we have the ability to make the biggest influence on communities through the funding and expert skills of Coca-Cola employees,” Carlos Pagoagoa, Coca-Cola’s group director of community partnerships, said in a statement. “In each city, local partners will work together to identify barriers to recycling on a local level and test a range of solutions,” he added. “We hope the learnings from these ‘model markets’ can offer solutions to other cities facing similar challenges.”
As part of the effort, The Recycling Partnership and the city of Atlanta, where the cola company’s headquarters are based, will send street teams out to open recycling carts and leave citizens cards informing them what they can and can’t recycle, and let them know how their efforts work.
“Two of the most urgent problems with recycling in the U. S. today are lack of access, followed by pollution in recycling,” Keefe Harrison, CEO of The Recycling Partnership, said in a statement. “We know from the success of Atlanta in 2017 that the citizens want to recycle, and that communicating with them in the street works.”
Last year, Coca-Cola announced its task to collect and reuse a bottle or can for each one it sells, and increase the amount of its products out of recycled materials to 50% by 2030. The brand also aims to make all its packaging fully recyclable by 2025.
【小题1】What does Coca-Cola company intend to do in the program?A.Produce less packaging. |
B.Help deal with plastic waste. |
C.Pick up waste in communities. |
D.Build a plant to recycle plastic waste. |
A.How Coca-Cola conducts its program. |
B.What organizations participate in the program. |
C.How Coca-Cola chooses cities for the program. |
D.What the local people do in Coca-Cola’s program. |
A.Sort out various waste in the city. |
B.Look into the cause of pollution. |
C.Instruct local people what to recycle. |
D.Hand cards to the locals in person. |
A.Promising. | B.Difficult. | C.Pioneering. | D.Costly. |
With roaring ships, hammering oil drill, industrial fishing and coastal construction, humans have strongly influenced the underwater soundscape (声音景观) over the past couple of hundred years — in some cases posting a threat to whales, dolphins and other ocean creatures. Until recently, underwater sound pollution had not attracted the same attention. Now, a new paper published in the journal Science lays out the impacts, demonstrating that noise pollution can be just as harmful to the ocean environment as other kinds of pollution.
Even the cracking of glaciers and any drop of rain falling on the water’s surface can be heard deep under the sea. Sea life uses sound to study their habitat, and to keep in communication with each other. They also use sound by listening to know something about their environment.
“It’s a long-lasting problem that certainly weakens the animals all the way from individuals to populations,” says lead author Carlos M. Duarte, distinguished professor at Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), “We are hoping that this report will not only reveal elements of how humans impact the ocean through sound pollution, but that it will also bring the topic to the attention of policymakers who will be able to act based upon the very real solutions.”
Marine (海洋) ecologist Kirsten Thompson of the United Kingdom’s University of Exeter, who was not involved in the study, said the report could not have come at a better time. “It summarizes the fact that we are in this new phase of human-caused noise in our oceans that is having a dramatic impact on different species.” What matters most, she notes, is the fact that the paper “doesn’t just point at the problem, it shows how to solve it.”
Unlike plastic pollution or fertilizer runoff, noise pollution will not take years to fix. The moment we switch our noise off the impact disappears, Duarte says, pointing to marine life surveys conducted around April 5, 2020. Having the world use more renewable energy would lessen the need to drill for oil and gas. The international team of researchers also called for a global regulatory framework for measuring and managing ocean noise.
【小题1】Which of the following threatens ocean creatures?A.Travel industry. | B.Human activities. |
C.Construction companies. | D.Sailing off the coast. |
A.Ocean animals can’t fall asleep. | B.It causes the cracking of glaciers. |
C.It’s a signal to the lower sea level. | D.It disrupts the behavior of sea life. |
A.She is one of the paper’s co-authors. |
B.The report does not come at the right time. |
C.The solutions are already available. |
D.The report has raised great attention from seamen. |
A.Technical advances and regulation. |
B.A policy to measure the depth of ocean. |
C.A global ban on drilling for oil and gas. |
D.Noise standards for cars and trucks. |
The UK has been taking various kinds of measures to increase its use of renewable energy.
Recent statistics have shown that 2017 is the greenest year the UK has ever had for electricity production, with its first coal-free day since the 19th century.
It added,
A.The UK has been trying to reduce the amount of gas it uses. |
B.Climate change is endangering our nature and wildlife. |
C.It is gradually changing from using fossil fuels to using cleaner and sustainable energy, such as wind power. |
D.The situation of our nature and wildlife is becoming better and better. |
E.In June, the electricity produced by wind, nuclear and solar power also exceeded that via gas and coal for the first time. |
F.The conservation charity World Wildlife Fund said it was pleased to see the UK taking active measures for a greener nation. |
G.Meanwhile, the UK has been trying to reduce the amount of coal it uses. |
Scientists in Mexico say they may have found a way to cut the production of methane, a gas linked to rising temperatures on the Earth’s surface. The scientists say their method may help reduce the methane released by cows, one of the main producers of the gas.
When talking about global warming, many people think of carbon dioxide, another heat-trapping gas. Methane is an even more powerful heat-trapping gas. Cows are known to produce high levels of methane when they eat and process food.
Researchers at the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico are studying how a cow’s diet affects the production of methane. The researchers are using a specially designed machine to measure the effect. The scientists use the machine to try to capture the animal’s breathing to examine the methane released.
Most of the gas is released when cows belch. The digestive bacteria in a cow’s stomach causes the animal to send out the gas through its mouth. There are an estimated 1.3 to 1.5 billion cows in the world. Each animal releases as much as 120 kilograms of methane per year. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reports that, whenever measured in pounds, the effect of methane on climate change is more than 25 times greater than carbon dioxide over a 100-year period.
As it is difficult to capture the gas released by cows for use as energy, one way to lessen its release is to change their diet. Scientists in some countries are looking for ways to decrease cow methane. But while they are trying different plants and chemical compounds, those products would be too costly and difficult to bring to Mexico.
【小题1】How harmful is the gas sent off by cows?A.It is more difficult to control its amount. |
B.It takes up most of human-caused methane. |
C.It is the key factor to prevent globe warming. |
D.It is more harmful than carbon dioxide. |
A.When they digest food in their stomachs. |
B.When their gas meets with air. |
C.When their gas is being sent out. |
D.When they breathe in air through mouths. |
A.Limit the number of cows. |
B.Change what they eat. |
C.Fix machines on their mouths. |
D.Use their gases as energy. |
A.We Had a Better Method of Raising Cows |
B.Cows Are Much More Harmful than Cars |
C.Researchers Found a Way to Reduce Methane from cows |
D.Two Gases Are Causing the Warming of the Planet |
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