To my mind, the reports talk too much about the carbon dioxide produced by the trucks that deliver the fresh goods to the shops and take the waste away.

在我看来，这些报告过多地谈论了卡车产生的二氧化碳，而这些卡车把新鲜的货物运送到商店，然后把垃圾运走。

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At the moment, the partnership only addresses waste at the production stage and not unsold goods.

目前，合作伙伴关系只涉及处理生产阶段的废料，而不涉及未售出的商品。

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Some of the waste paper is turned into boxes to hold Chinese-made electronic goods that are then shipped to America.

一些废纸被制造成了装箱盒子，装载着中国制造的电子产品，并运往美国销售。

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Small business has historically been a powerful engine of job creation and yet it is shying away from one of the biggest growth opportunities of our time: the Clean Economy, broadly defined here to include not only renewable energy, public mass transit, and waste treatment but all goods and services with environmental benefits.

FORBES: Why Small Businesses Should Be Adding More Green Jobs

That would help to signal which items are hardest to get rid of, giving consumers an incentive to buy goods that create less waste in the first place.

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There are also emissions associated with goods and services purchased by hotels, such as waste management and transportation.

BBC: Can hotels be truly carbon neutral?