Take " expanded polystyrene" , for example, which you know as " Styrofoam" .

比如说“发泡聚乙烯”，也就是大家知道的“泡沫聚乙烯”。

And they were still in everything from refrigerators and air conditioners and styrofoam.

它们仍然存在于冰箱、空调和聚苯乙烯泡沫塑料等各种物品中。

Maybe you're imagining a big island of packaging, and styrofoam coolers, and fishing gear.

也许你在想象一个巨大的包装岛，上面满是泡沫聚苯乙烯冷却器和渔具。

So it would take 3 or 4,000 mealworms to eat this Styrofoam cup about a week.

因此，大约需要3到4000条大麦虫用一周才能吃掉这个泡沫塑料杯。

When it comes to shipping materials, its not always the perfect substitute for Styrofoam or other plastics.

说到运输材料，它并不总是泡沫塑料或其他塑料的完美替代品。

Then I made him reinforce it with styrofoam.

然后我让他用泡沫塑料加固。

Because that'll anchor our styrofoam cone.

- 因为那会固定我们的聚苯乙烯泡沫塑料锥体。

The material in styrofoam cups is nearly impossible to recycle and it doesn't decompose.

泡沫塑料杯中的材料几乎无法回收，也不会分解。

You end up with a block of Styrofoam bigger than the TV itself.

你最终会得到一块比电视本身还大的泡沫塑料。

Mr. Garcia and his team members designed a drone made with styrofoam and an electric motor.

加西亚先生和他的团队成员设计了一种由聚苯乙烯泡沫塑料和电动机制成的无人机。

Well, those Styrofoam coffee cups are sure going to add up.

那些聚苯乙烯泡沫塑料咖啡杯肯定会加起来。

If you can, switch out styrofoam and plastic materials for items that are compostable or better yet, reusable.

如果可以，请将聚苯乙烯泡沫塑料和塑料材料换成可堆肥或更好的可重复使用的物品。

However, we don't want Styrofoam coming out into our environment here and raining plastic down our rivers forever.

然而，我们不希望聚苯乙烯泡沫塑料进入我们这里的环境，让塑料雨永远流入我们的河流。

But what if we could keep using Styrofoam

但是如果我们可以继续使用聚苯乙烯泡沫塑料呢？

So why do we have these ghost accumulations of Styrofoam waste? Why can't we just recycle them like many plastics?

那么为什么我们会有这些聚苯乙烯泡沫塑料废料的幽灵堆积呢？为什么我们不能像许多塑料一样回收它们？

We see the usual suspects of plastic lids from bottles, cups, fragments of food containers, a lot of tiny little pieces of Styrofoam.

这里有我们经常看到的塑料垃圾 —— 瓶盖、杯盖，食品包装容器的碎片，还有很多小的聚苯乙烯泡沫塑料颗粒。

They held phones, or Styrofoam coffee cups, and before seven a.m. at least half of them would be in workout gear.

他们拿着电话或泡沫聚苯乙烯咖啡杯，在早上七点之前， 至少有一半人会穿着健身装备。

There's all this existing research evidence that styrofoam and other plastics are bad for our health, for the environment, for the people who manufacture them.

现有的研究证据表明，泡沫塑料和其他塑料对我们的健康，环境以及制造它们的人都有害。

The television was on – some manic children's confection of brightly clad, gurning presenters – and two Styrofoam cups sat on the mantelpiece.

电视开着——穿着鲜艳、面带笑容的主持人是狂躁儿童的甜点——两个聚苯乙烯泡沫塑料杯子放在壁炉架上。

And when they came back and told us about it, we really started thinking about the ways in which we see Styrofoam every day.

当他们回来告诉我们这件事时，我们真的开始思考我们每天看到泡沫塑料的方式。