在圣弗朗西斯科洲,诺克尔废品管理局负责处理的,是这个城市绝大多数的家庭生活废品。Ruiz先生便是在这个管理局里工作的。
In San Francisco, Mr Ruiz works for Norcal Waste Systems, which handles most of the city's household rubbish.
其他时候,他负责在被称为“深坑”的地方驾驶推土机。在这里,那些来自圣弗朗西斯科洲的家庭生活废品被运来了,又被更大的垃圾装载车运走,继续前往堆填区。
At other times he drives a bulldozer in "the pit", where rubbish trucks dump San Francisco's household waste, to be loaded onto bigger trucks also headed for the landfill.
大多数城市的居民并不会直接把他们生活废品中的纸张、塑料和金属丢掉,而是把这些东西保留起来,卖给那些被称为kabari - wallah的定期上门收购者。
Most urban households do not throw out unwanted paper, plastic and metal. Instead, they save it and sell it to itinerant traders called kabari-wallahs who come to call at regular intervals.
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