Now Chicago's waste water was draining into the Chicago River, the city's next step was to clean the polluted river.

现在芝加哥的废水正在排入芝加哥河，该城市的下一步是清理被污染的河流。

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We drink water. We use it to cook, clean, and carry waste out of our homes.

我们饮水。我们用它来做饭、清洁、冲走家里的脏污。

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In order to cut down food waste, the government has started the "Clean Plate Campaign".

为了减少食物浪费，政府发起了“光盘行动”。

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"Bring It On" organizes environmental "jams" to clean up waste in the area.

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But the sight of workers wearing white protective suits and gloves hauling in tons of oil-contaminated waste - including bags of sandy tar balls, vegetation,used oil booms, rags and other clean-up supplies - has caused alarm among some Gulf coast communities.

VOA: standard.2010.08.05

The experimental fusion reactors, he suggests, could be used to clean up the waste generated by the fission reactors.

ECONOMIST: Nuclear waste

Ilya Raskin of Rutgers University says plants can help clean up hazardous waste sites through a process of phytoremediation.

CNN: Flower power

As an example of the weakness of the old way, the authors cite the Superfund, America's controversial attempt to clean up toxic waste.

ECONOMIST: Green plus red-tape makes brown