Electronics giants like Best Buy and Samsung have provided e-waste take-back programs over the past few years, which aim to refurbish old electronic components and parts into new products.

像百思买和三星这样的电子产品巨头在过去的几年中展开了电子垃圾回收项目，旨在翻新旧的电子元件和零部件，令其成为新的产品。

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Engineers trying to maintain the exponential growth in the power of electronics have two preoccupations: making components smaller and making them produce less waste heat.

试图保持电子元件能力指数式增长的工程师们有两个难题：将元件做的更小和使元件散发更少的废热。

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In the pure plug-in version, those valves are for waste heat from the electronics.

在纯电动版的车型中，那些排放管只是用于排放电子设备产生的废热。

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The Consumer Electronics Show has an area for companies to demonstrate products that save energy,reduce waste and use recycled materials.

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Consumer-electronics devices can waste as much as 25% of their normal power when ostensibly off.

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Participants in that treaty tried to finalize e-waste guidelines, but they were not adopted because some developed countries and the electronics industry would not agree without adding loopholes to allow repairable electronic waste to be exempted, said advocacy group IPEN, a global network of more than 700 public interest non-governmental organizations.

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While it's true that we waste plenty of electricity each year just so our electronics are ready to go when we are, we think it's worth it.

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