Your Recyclables Get Recycled, Right?
陸拒收海外垃圾 美頭大
By Livia Albeck-Ripka

Oregon is serious about recycling. Its residents are accustomed to dutifully separating milk cartons, yogurt containers, cereal boxes and kombucha bottles from their trash to divert them from the landfill. But this year, because of a far-reaching rule change in China, some of the recyclables are ending up in the local dump anyway.
奧勒岡州認真看待垃圾回收一事。當地居民習慣於盡責地將牛奶盒、優酪乳容器、麥片盒及康普茶罐從自家垃圾中分出來，以免被送到垃圾掩埋場去，但今年因中國一項影響深遠的法規改變，部分可回收物最終都會進到當地的垃圾場。

In recent months, in fact, thousands of tons of material left curbside for recycling in dozens of U.S. cities and towns – including several in Oregon – have gone to landfills.
事實上，近幾個月全美國有數十個城鎮，包括奧勒岡州的幾個城鎮，成千上萬噸放在路邊等待回收的材料已進入垃圾掩埋場。

In the past, the municipalities would have shipped much of their used paper, plastics and other scrap materials to China for processing. But as part of a broad antipollution campaign, China announced last summer that it no longer wanted to import “foreign garbage.” Since Jan. 1 it has banned imports of various types of plastic and paper, and tightened standards for materials it does accept.
過去，市政當局會將大部分廢紙、塑膠及其他廢料運往中國大陸進行加工，但作為一場全面反汙染運動的部分行動，中國在去年夏天宣布不希望再進口「外國垃圾」。自今年1月1日起，中國禁止進口各種塑膠與紙張，並採取了更嚴格的接受材料標準。

While some waste managers already send their recyclable materials to be processed domestically, or are shipping more to other countries, others have been unable to find a substitute for the Chinese market. “All of a sudden, material being collected on the street doesn’t have a place to go,” said Pete Keller, vice president of recycling and sustainability at Republic Services, one of the largest waste managers in the country.
雖然有些廢棄物管理業者已將可回收材料改在國內處理，或提高運往中國以外國家的數量，但其他業者卻未能找到足以代替中國市場的地方。美國最大廢棄物管理業者之一「共和服務」公司負責回收和永續性發展的副總裁皮特．凱勒說：「突然間，街上收集到的材料無處可去。」

China’s stricter requirements also mean that loads of recycling are more likely to be considered contaminated if they contain materials that are not recyclable. That has compounded a problem that waste managers call wishful or aspirational recycling: people setting aside items for recycling because they believe or hope they are recyclable, even when they are not.
中國更嚴格的要求也意味著，可回收貨物若含有不可回收材料，更可能被認定為已受到汙染，這令廢棄物管理業者所謂一廂情願或渴望式回收的問題變得更麻煩：人們分出物品來進行回收，因為相信或希望它們是可以回收的，即便它們不能。

In the Pacific Northwest, Republic has diverted more than 2,000 tons of paper to landfills since the Chinese ban came into effect, Keller said. The company has been unable to move that material to a market “at any price or cost,” he said. Though Republic is dumping only a small portion of its total inventory so far – the company handles more than 5 million tons of recyclables nationwide each year – it sent little to no paper to landfills last year.
凱勒表示，中國大陸停收令生效以來，共和服務在美國西北部濱太平洋地區已將2000多噸廢紙轉送至垃圾掩埋場，他並稱該公司無法「不計何價格或成本」將這些材料轉移至別的市場。雖然共和服務迄今僅傾倒其總庫存的一小部分，但它去年送到掩埋場的紙張極少，甚至是沒有。該公司每年在全美國處理的回收物超過500萬噸。

But for smaller companies, like Rogue Disposal and Recycling, which serves much of Oregon, the Chinese ban has upended operations. Rogue sent all its recycling to landfills for the first few months of the year, said Garry Penning, a spokesman.
但對規模較小的公司而言，例如為奧勒岡州大部分地區提供服務的羅格處理回收公司，中國的禁令已造成營運大亂。發言人蓋瑞．潘寧表示，今年前幾個月羅格把所有回收物全送進了掩埋場。

原文參照：
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/29/climate/recycling-landfills-plastic-papers.html

紐約時報中文版參照：
https://cn.nytimes.com/usa/20180530/c30cli-recycling/zh-hant/

2018-06-17 聯合報．D4．紐約時報賞析 陳韋廷

說文解字看新聞 陳韋廷

中國大陸今年起停收洋垃圾，美國等垃圾輸出國嚴重適應不良，許多回收垃圾最終只得送至垃圾掩埋場，而環保人士憂心如此作法恐衝擊地球生態且使環境負荷大增，因回收量減少後全球勢須生產更多塑膠新品來應付製造業的需求。

scrap material為廢料之意，而scrap一字也有廢料的意思，指的是生產過程中遺留下來可用於再加工的材料，它的價格可能相當昂貴，如廢五金（scrap metal）與廢鋼鐵（scrap of iron and steel）等等，而waste（廢棄物）的定義則非常廣泛，包含有形（tangible）與無形（intangible）兩種形式，例如紙板（cupboard）與塑膠就是可回收的廢棄物。

至於垃圾一字，美式英文跟英式英文則有不同的說法，美國人常用trash或garbage來表達，英國人則是rubbish，而垃圾分類的英文則是separate the trash。此外，junk也有垃圾之意，如垃圾食物說成junk food。

最後順帶一提，文中首段單字kombucha指的是種經發酵製成的茶飲，又名紅茶菌或冬菇茶，據說因有高度美容及健康效果，深受歐美名流喜愛。

Russian City’s Dazzling New Soccer Stadium Outshines Its Team
俄為世足砸大錢 新球場比球隊搶眼
By Andrew E. Kramer

Nikita I. Zakharov leads the fan club for the soccer team in this leafy, slow-paced provincial city, and yet he keeps a cleareyed view of its place in the wider world of soccer.
加里寧格勒是個綠意盎然、步調緩慢的省轄市，尼基塔．札哈洛夫帶領這個城市足球隊的粉絲俱樂部，不過，對於這座城市在更廣大足球世界裡的地位，他也心知肚明。

“We cannot really boast of soccer success,” he said mournfully. The team, Baltika, plays in a second-tier Russian league. In its 64-year history, it has won the championship once – in 1995, “the golden year!” exclaimed Zakharov – and came in second twice, in 1959 and 1961.
他哀怨地說：「我們無法真的誇口說我們的足球隊戰果輝煌。」「波羅的海」這支隊伍，是俄羅斯乙級聯賽的球隊。成軍64年來只在1995年得過一次總冠軍，札卡洛夫高喊：「黃金年。」另外曾在1959和1961年兩度贏得亞軍。

Its biggest win, it turns out, was not so much on the field as with a field. Rising out of a formerly undeveloped swampy area in the city, a gigantic, glistening $280 million stadium appeared this year, one of six new arenas Russia built for the World Cup.
事實證明，這支球隊的最大勝利不是足球場上的戰績，而是球場本身。這座城市原本未開發的沼澤地區，今年出現了一座耗資2.8億美元，巨大、亮眼的體育場，是俄羅斯為世界杯足球賽打造的六座新球場之一。

It is a bumper crop of new stadiums that, even by World Cup standards, appear out of proportion with the small crowds drawn by local teams like Baltika, which will use the venues after the tournament.
興建新球場的手筆即使就迎接世界杯而言也算是很大的，而且與「波羅的海」之類地方球隊所能吸引的有限觀眾顯得不成比例。在世界杯大賽後，這些場館將供這些地方球隊使用。

Their construction, at a cumulative cost estimated at $11 billion along with related infrastructure, illustrates how sports, as with the oil and mining businesses, has become integral to how the Kremlin and Russia’s ultra-wealthy financiers, known as the oligarchs, do business together.
這些場館的興建，連同相關基礎設施，累計成本估計為110億美元。這些建設說明，和石油、採礦業一樣，運動已成為克里姆林宮和俄羅斯超級富豪金融家，亦即所謂的寡頭富豪，共同做生意的一部分。

World Cup stadiums became a means to reward well-connected businessmen, said Ilya Shumanov, deputy director of the anti-corruption group Transparency International.
反貪腐組織「國際透明」的副主任伊利亞．舒馬諾夫說，世界杯場館成為酬庸人脈豐厚商人的一種手段。

“Authoritarian regimes love megasports projects,” Shumanov said. “Huge sums are distributed from the budget. It’s bread and circuses at the same time.”
舒馬諾夫說：「威權政體喜歡大型運動興建計畫。巨額的資金從預算而來。它同時也可用來籠絡人心。」

The lucrative deal in Kaliningrad, a Russian exclave between Lithuania and Poland, went to the company of Aras Agalarov, who is one of Russia’s wealthiest men. Agalarov also had a commercial relationship with Donald Trump, having partnered with him in 2013 to host the Miss Universe pageant in Moscow.
加里寧格勒州是介於立陶宛和波蘭之間的俄羅斯飛地，加里寧格勒這筆利潤豐厚的交易，最後落到俄國首富之一阿拉斯．艾加拉洛夫公司的頭上。艾加拉洛夫與唐納德．川普有商業關係，2013年曾與川普聯手在莫斯科舉辦環球小姐選美大會。

“The Agalarovs are very well connected, in Azerbaijan, in Russia and in the United States,” Shumanov said.
舒馬諾夫說：「艾加拉洛夫家族人脈極佳，在亞塞拜然、俄羅斯和美國都是如此。」

The stadium in Kaliningrad is among those that went to cities with no top-tier soccer team. In one instance, a stadium with 45,000 seats went up in Saransk, a city with a population of 297,000.
加里寧格勒是並無甲級聯賽足球隊，卻興建了新館場的城市之一。另一例是人口僅29萬7000人的薩蘭斯克市，新建一座有4萬5000座位的體育場。

The designs of the new stadiums nod to local pride. In Kaliningrad and St. Petersburg, both port towns, the stadiums’ look hints at ships. Mastlike towers suspend the roofs. The flying-saucer-shaped Cosmos Arena appeared in Samara, a center of the space industry.
新體育場在設計上無不向當地人的驕傲致敬。在加里寧格勒和聖彼得堡這兩個港市，體育場的外觀讓人聯想到船隻。類似船桅的塔架懸吊在屋頂上。飛碟形狀的「宇宙競技場」則出現在太空工業中心城市薩馬拉。

Kaliningrad’s residents have been scratching their heads over what to do with the stadium when the World Cup is over.
加里寧格勒居民一直在猛搔頭，不知世界杯落幕後該拿這座場館如何是好。

原文參照：
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/27/world/europe/russia-world-cup-stadiums.html

2018-06-17 聯合報．D4．紐約時報賞析 王麗娟