In rich countries, packaging and handling has vastly reduced this sort of waste.

在发达国家，在食物的处理包装上的技术，减少了大量的浪费。

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Food packaging accounts for most of our plastic waste and it's often completely unnecessary.

食品包装是塑料污染的重要原因，很多时候是完全不必要的。

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The waste, oh the waste. Let's start with packaging: the packaging for every toy is double the volume of the toy itself.

先从包装开始说：每个玩具的外包装本事就是玩具的两倍。

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Other countries with big economies and high standards of living have rejected the disposable products that make up so much of America's garbage in part because European countries hold manufacturers, not taxpayers, responsible for the costs of packaging waste.

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Consumerism has brought with it plastic packaging and new problems of waste management.

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Called Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), this legislation would essentially set requirements for companies to collect and recycle a certain percentage of the packaging waste they generate, but would leave how they go about doing it up to the companies themselves.

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