For years, using recycled plastic to make plastic products was cheap.

多年来，使用再生塑料制造塑料产品很便宜。

Recycled plastic is already used to make some products, such as guttering and sewage pipes.

回收塑料已被用于制作一些产品，比如排水沟和排污管。

Additionally, recycling facilities may be improved at a local council level, and recycled plastic could be imported.

此外，可以在地方议会层级改善回收设施，并且可以进口再生塑料。

The UK government plans to tax companies which don't use at least 30 % recycled plastic in their products.

英国政府计划对那些在产品中使用再生塑料未达到30%的公司征税。

From companies changing their business practices to whole countries, like France, switching to 100% recycled plastic by 2025.

企业开始从国家角度出发，改变其商业活动，比如法国预计 2025 年将改用 100% 可回收塑料。

You can recycle plastic bags, you know, Rob?

你可以循环利用这些塑料袋的，罗伯，你不知道吗？

And recycling plastics is hard and not cost-competitive.

回收塑料很难 并且成本不具有竞争力。

This would help increase the amount of recycled plastic in circulation.

这将有助于增加循环中的再生塑料数量。

Plastic packaging makers are being pressured to use more recycled plastic.

塑料包装制造商正面临着使用更多再生塑料的压力。

Lego backtracks on plan to use recycled plastic for bricks.

乐高放弃了使用再生塑料制作积木的计划。

Many countries lack the infrastructure to efficiently recycle plastic bags.

许多国家缺乏有效回收塑料袋的基础设施。

Nearby, a floating park: hexagonal islands made of recycled plastic.

由回收塑料制成的六角形岛屿。

Australia is another country that is starting to recycle plastic into roads.

澳大利亚是另一个开始将回收塑料制成公路的国家。

According to one recent business report, recycled plastic now costs an extra $72 a ton compared with newly made plastic.

根据最近的一份商业报告，与新制造的塑料相比，再生塑料现在每吨的成本要高出72美元。

The group plans to make consumer products out of recycled plastic from the patch.

该组织计划用捕捞的回收塑料制造消费品。

Shops are full of synthetic fur coats, plastic belts, and shoes made from tree bark, recycled plastic bottles, rubber and coconut fibre.

商店里到处都是人造毛皮大衣、塑料腰带和用树皮、回收塑料瓶、橡胶和椰子纤维制成的鞋子。

I observed visitors coming in, thinking these sculptures are made out of recycled plastic.

络绎不绝的游客都以为这些雕塑是用回收塑料做的。

They are pushing for more recycled plastics in new products.

他们正在推动在新产品中使用更多的再生塑料。

Additionally, the government is planning to increase the quantity of recycled plastic in the market.

此外，英国政府还计划增加市场再生塑料的数量。

The Danish company say it's because changing to recycled plastic doesn't actually reduce carbon emissions.

这家丹麦公司说，这是因为改用再生塑料实际上并不能减少碳排放。