他想鼓励更多的人对塑料吸管说不。

He wants to encourage more people to say no to plastic straws.

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这就解释了我们对塑料垃圾袋和带轮行李箱等看似简单的发明的反应：“为什么以前没有人想到这一点？”

This accounts for our reaction to seemingly simple innovations like plastic garbage bags and suitcases on wheels that make life more convenient:"How come nobody thought of that before?"

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苏腊巴亚交通部门的主管说：“达成这项决议后，我们希望提高公众环境意识，尤其是人们对塑料垃圾的认知。”

The head of Surabaya's transportation department said, "With this decision, we hope to raise public awareness about environment, especially people's awareness about plastic waste."

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That creates all sorts of social consequences that we'll talk about sustainability, with shipping water long distances, all the plastic involved, people's distrust of public water systems that's unfounded, and things like that are very interesting and have big public health consequences.

这就产生了很多社会问题,比如我们将要谈到的饮水污染问题,饮用水在长途运输的过程中,会受到各种塑料污染,还有人们对公用自来水系统,毫无理由地不信任,类似这些现象都很有趣,而且会导致重大的公共健康后果

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