It takes more energy to mine that plastic, manufacture, package, distribute and purchase then it does to wash a dish.

对我而言，塑料盘子的制造、包装、运输和采购比洗盘子的成本更高。

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And at a time when hobbyist computers were boxy wooden affairs with metal chassis, he designed the Apple II as a sleek, low-slung plastic package intended for the den or the kitchen.

在那个时代，业余爱好者的计算机就是四四方方的木头盒子加上一个金属底架，而他设计的Apple II，是圆滑矮小的塑料包，可以放在书房或者厨房。

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But Closed Loop can afford such fancy kit only because there is a strong market for its product: plastic of sufficient quality to be used to package food.

不过，闭环公司之所以能负担起这么豪华的设备，是因为它背后有着强大的市场需求。

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For example, buyers of iPads are willing to pay an exorbitant price for the package of plastic and metal that make up an iPad because that package of plastic and metal can do quite amazing things compares to other packaging of plastic and metal.

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Environment Minister Amedi Camara said that nearly all of the plastic package waste is not "collected and is found in the natural environment - land and sea - where they are sometimes ingested by marine species and livestock, causing their death".

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That market was also destined to end up on the commodity pile, so Endoh in 1994 assigned 50 researchers to a challenging task: Cut plastic chip package costs by one-third.

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