国家地理:没有垃圾的世界可能存在吗(6)

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The Romans, like the Phoenicians before them, also mined copper from the rich deposits at Río Tinto in Spain.
古罗马人和更早期的腓尼基人一样，在西班牙里奥廷托的富饶矿藏中开采铜。

But they recycled too: They melted down bronze statues from conquered peoples to make weapons.
但他们也会回收。他们熔化被征服者的铜像，铸造武器。

Copper has always been a prime target for recyclers. Compared with sewage, it's scarce and valuable.
铜一向是回收者的主要目标。和粪尿相比，它更稀有，更贵重。

In the yard at the Aurubis copper smelter in Lünen, in the Ruhr region of western Germany,
在德国西部鲁尔区吕嫩市的奥如比斯炼铜厂的庭院里，

a large bust of Lenin stands in a flower bed -- a souvenir of the many bronze Lenins melted here,
一座巨大的列宁半身像耸立在花床之中，是在这里烧熔的诸多列宁像的余绪，

from towns around communist East Germany, after East and West were reunited in 1990.
当初它们来自1990年两德统一后的社会主义东德各城镇。

Aurubis, Europe's largest copper producer, is also the world's largest copper recycler.
奥如比斯是欧洲最大的精炼铜生厂商，也是世界最大的铜回收者。

copper for artillery shells was in short supply, and Germans were pulling bronze bells out of church towers.
当时铜制炮弹壳短缺，德国人因此从各个教堂的钟楼里卸出铜钟应急。

"Since that day, this plant has exclusively done recycling," said Detlev Laser, the deputy plant manager.
“从那天起，这家工厂专做回收材料。”经理代理德特勒夫·拉泽说。

Copper, unlike plastic, say, can be recycled indefinitely without loss of quality -- it's a perfect circular material.
铜与塑料不同，可以无限反复回收而不损质量，是完美循环材料。

As Europe has replaced landfills with municipal incinerators, a lot of slag is showing up containing bits of metal
在欧洲以市立焚化炉取代垃圾填埋场后，出现了许多仅含只铜片铁的废物

"because someone threw their cell phone in the trash" instead of the recycling bin, Laser said.
拉泽说，“因为有人把手机丢到垃圾桶里了”，而不是投入回收箱。

With Hendrik Roth, the plant's environmental manager, I watched an excavator drop bucketloads of electronic debris,
我和环境经理亨德里克·罗特一起观看挖掘机抛下一桶一桶的电子残骸，

the first of more than a dozen steps in the bewildering and deafening sorting process.
这只是十几个纷乱嘈杂的分类过程中的第一步。

At one station, a conveyor raced by, carrying hand-size shards of circuit boards.
在其中一站，一条传送带载着手掌大小的电路板飞速流过。

Some fell into an abyss; others leaped as if by their own volition onto a belt above.
其中一些落入深渊；其余的则好像活了一般跳上另一条传送带。

A camera system, Roth explained, was deciding whether each shard contained metal
罗特解释说，一套摄像系统判断各个电路板中是否存在金属

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1.melt down 熔化
A simple solution, then, was to melt down the crown, cast it into a cube and weigh it.
于是，最简单的办法是：将王冠熔化，铸成一个方块，称出它的重量。

2.the bust of ...的半身像
I've ever had time to sculpt a bust of my father and to burnish it.
我甚至花时间雕了一尊我父亲的半身像，并把它擦得锃亮。

3.without loss of 不损失
Vector images can be blown up to any size without loss of quality.
矢量图无论放大多少都不会损失图片质量。

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