Who can forget the recent image of a sea-turtle with a plastic straw stuck up its nose?

谁能忘记最近那些海龟鼻子上插着塑料吸管的画面呢？

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Does one plastic straw or cup really make a difference?

一根塑料吸管或一只塑料杯真有什么影响吗？

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Once a turtle was found bleeding because a 12-centimeter-long plastic straw was pushed into its nose. How terrible!

人们曾经发现一只乌龟在流血，因为一根12厘米长的塑料吸管被塞进了它的鼻子。太可怕了！

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When he famously gained a manufacturing foothold with the plastic flowers in the 1950s, he says, he was able to engineer critical molding machinery with an injection process made using a Coca-Cola (nyse: KO - news - people ) bottle and a plastic straw, using something he saw in Modern Plastics as a guide.

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