The Exeter University academic also urged manufacturers to cut down on BPA in food packaging and containers.

埃克塞特大学的学者也敦促制造商减少食品包装和容器中的双酚a用量。

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Americans go through 110 billion plastic or plastic-covered cups each year, using and discarding what the Food Packaging Institute describes as "astronomical numbers" of disposable containers.

美国人每年要用1100亿塑料制品或塑料盖杯，用完丢弃的一次性容器数量被食品包装研究所（FoodPackaging Institute）形容为“天文数字”。

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(in 2008, containers and packaging made up nearly 26 percent of the trash Americans sent to landfills; food scraps, almost 19 percent.) with.

在2008年，罐装和包装占堆填区垃圾的26%。

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This is the situation currently unfolding at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), where regulators have until March 31 to comply with a consent judgment by responding to a petition by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) to ban the use of the chemical bisphenol A (BPA) in food packaging, food containers and other materials likely to be ingested or to come into contact with food.

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By the time she was born, I was already turning heads at Pioneer Packaging, helping to make antifreeze containers that were more translucent than previously thought possible.

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