三条环保小贴士——小改变创造大不同 中英对照翻译

As adolescents, having a meaningful impact on the world can seem like an impossible and daunting task for the simple fact of being kids. Changing the world does not only mean finding a cure for cancer, eliminating poverty, or finding the origin of humanity, but recycling a piece of paper as well. Going Green is a practical way that adolescents can have a real, meaningful influence in the world. There are numerous options of how individuals can change their lifestyles to be more eco-consciou s. What follows are three simple ways young adolescents can go green and change the world.

作为青少年，你会觉得自己不过是个孩子，对世界难以产生什么深远影响。但改变世界可不仅仅指找到战胜癌症的良方、帮助人们脱贫或找到人类起源，回收废纸也可以改变世界。想用自己的力量让世界变得更美好吗？支持环保事业是个可行的方法。每个人都能通过多种方法让自己的生活方式更环保。青少年可以试试下面这三种简单的方法支持环保，改变世界。

1. Recycle

According to a Wire & Twine online article, 63 million newspapers go out to street vendors , local paper boys, or newspaper dispensers every day and of those 44 million are thrown away; recycling the Sunday newspaper alone we could save half a million trees a week.

The age of technology constantly creates new phones, iPods, or new computers coming out. Many will stand in line for hours if not days to get their hands on the new piece of technology, but what happens with the old ones once they are replaced? Nothing, according to Earth911 about 75% of the old devices sit in the back of a drawer collecting dust. By taking them to the local stores that collect them they go to people with disabilities, war veterans, and shelters for battered women which in turn removes them from landfills where the phones explode because of the lead and lithium-ion the phones contain .

1.回收废物

Wire & Twine网上的一篇文章指出，每天有6300万份报纸通过街边报摊、报童或报纸投递员送出，其中有4400万份被丢弃；每周仅靠回收周末版报纸就能少砍50万棵树。

科技时代里手机、平板电脑或电脑不断推陈出新。许多人为了尝试新技术不惜排队等上数小时甚至数天时间去购买，但有了新设备以后旧设备该如何处理呢？根据Earth911的调查，75%的旧设备被人们丢在一边渐渐遗忘。如果把这些旧设备送到当地的回收商店，那些残障人士、退伍老兵和受虐妇女的手里，如若不然这些人就不得不跑到因铅和锂泄露爆炸产生的废墟中寻找这些废旧设备。