韩国塑料袋禁用洛杉矶禁用塑料袋.docx

韩国塑料袋禁用洛杉矶禁用塑料袋

　　Cashier: Paper or plastic today? 　　This is a phrase you won’t hear next year in Los Angeles. The city has joined several other major California 2)municipalities with a ban on plastic grocery bags.
　　收银员：纸袋还是塑料袋？
　　明年开始，你在洛杉矶再也听不到这个句话了。继加利福尼亚州几大城市以后，洛杉矶也马上加入限制塑料购物袋的行列。
　　Resident: I have no problem with plastic being banned. I mean it reduces waste and it doesn’t end up in 3)landfills or in the ocean. It’s a petroleum product.
　　Shoppers will have to bring their own bags to the check-out line or pay 10 cents for a paper bag. Plastic bag manufacturers complain that the new law will make manufacturing jobs disappear.
　　With environmentalists pushing for a state-wide ban on plastic bags, people are wondering how they’ll line their garbage bins and pick up after their pets.
　　Heal the Bay says Californians use 12 billion 4)disposable bags per year and only 5% get recycled. Whether it’s doggie doodoo or dirty 5)diapers, plastic bags are useful. They’re also free and disposable, but environmentalists say we’ve taken them for granted for too long, and they’re not actually free or disposable.
　　Under the new law, produce bags,