San Jose on Monday moved one step closer to becoming the largest American city to ban not only plastic shopping bags - but also most paper ones.

圣何塞市周一颁布禁令禁止使用塑料袋和大部分纸质包装袋，这也使圣何塞市距离成为美国实施这一禁令的最大城市又近了一步。

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7 million tons of plastic is turned into bottles which are only used once each year.

每年有700万吨塑料被制成塑料瓶，而这些塑料瓶只被使用一次。

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Which means Haegele isn't the only person trying to cut plastic out of her life—she isn't even the only one blogging about this kind of endeavor.

这意味着黑格尔并不是唯一一个试图将塑料从她的生活中剔除的人——她甚至不是唯一一个在博客上谈论这种努力的人。

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