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Rainbow-coloured rubbish. This is the colourful waste created by a Swedish city with a unique recycling system. 各种颜色的垃圾。是瑞典那边经过的特别的回收系统生产出来的彩色垃圾。 Like many cities in Sweden, Eskilstuna has an impressive recycling record. 和瑞典的许多城市一样，它们在回收利用这个领域里取得了非常好的成绩，比如埃斯基尔斯蒂纳。 It met the EU's 2020 target of recycling 50% of waste many years ago. . 多年前，它就达到了欧盟2020年回收50%垃圾的目标。 But almost everyone who lives here follows a strict recycling policy at home. 但几乎每个住在这里的人在家里都遵守严格的回收政策。 People are expected to sort their household waste into seven separate categories, including food, textiles, cartons and metal. 人们将把生活垃圾分成七类，包括食物、纺织品、纸箱和金属。 But what really makes the system stand out is the bright colour code. 但真正使这个回收系统脱颖而出的是明亮的颜色代码。 The reason for this becomes clear at the city's recycling plant. 在这座城市的回收厂，这样做的原因显而易见。 The bags arrive all jumbled up because they' re collected altogether, once a fortnight from outside people' s houses. 这些垃圾袋送来时全部混在一起，因为这些垃圾是回收厂那边每隔两周从每个住户那里收来的。 But thanks to those bright colours, scanners can select the bags and separate them efficiently. 但幸亏这些垃圾袋色彩明亮，扫描器可以高效地把它们进行挑拣和分离。 The food waste in green bags is processed on site into slurry to make bio gas, which powers the city's buses. 根据垃圾袋颜色的不同，而被分别利用，比如绿色的垃圾袋里面的垃圾会被加工成泥浆，然后制作出沼气，用来给城市公共汽车驱动。 One of the benefits of this method of recycling is that there is less cross-contamination, so more of the recycled waste can actually be used to make new things. 这种回收方法的好处之一是减少了交叉污染，所以更多的回收物品实际上可以用来制造新东西。 Like the rest of Sweden, Eskilstuna is committed to sending zero waste from its citizens to landfill. 跟瑞典其他的城市一样，埃斯基尔斯蒂纳市把居民的生活垃圾降为0为目标。 Waste that cannot be recycled is incinerated at a local plant to generate electricity. 不能回收的废弃物会被当地的发电厂用来焚烧发电。 This reduces reliance on fossil fuels, but doescreate greenhouse gases. 虽然这减少了对化石燃料的依赖，但是产生了一些温室气体。 As countries around the world try to improve their recycling rates, some may look to Eskilstuna as an example to follow - as long asthey think they can persuade their citizens to get busy sorting at home. 世界上很多国家都在想发设法地提高垃圾回收率，一些国家也会以埃斯基尔斯蒂纳为榜样，效仿它的做法，前提是要能说服市民在家中勤于分类。 |
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