Bacteria in the soil wouldn't break down the plastic material in ten years.

土壤中的细菌十年之内都不能把那些塑料物质降解掉。

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Plastic spheres and tubes serve as living Chambers and tunnels; you provide food, soil, moss, and water (and ants, sold separately).

塑料球可作住室，塑料管可作地道；你负责供应食物、土壤、苔藓和水(还有蚂蚁，这是单卖的)。

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Modern straw buildings start with a foundation of gravel held in the kind of plastic bags used for vegetables at a grocery store, and covered with a soil mortar.

现代稻草建筑是以食品店包装蔬菜用的塑料袋以碎石作为基板，上面铺一层灰泥浆。

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The mountain is a giant, putrid layer-cake, with dozens of strata of rubbish separated by soil and plastic liners designed to contain the brew of noxious chemicals that would otherwise leach into groundwater.

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If we were doing it again now, the material would be taken out in its soil matrix, put in a plastic bag and kept cool.

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Black polyethylene mulching involves the plants growing through holes in plastic sheets that cover the soil.

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