But have you ever thought about the environmental consequences of all those disposable coffee cups?

但是你想过那些一次性咖啡杯对环境的影响吗？

So if a disposable cup is one you throw away, a reusable one is one that you can use again and again.

所以如果一次性杯子是你扔掉的杯子，那可重复使用的杯子就是你可以反复使用的杯子。

Some of the big chains are now charging customers more for a disposable cup and giving discounts if people bring their own reusable.

一些大型连锁店现在对一次性杯子向顾客收取更高的费用，如果顾客自带可重复使用的杯子，会给予折扣。

In the US alone, 120 billion disposable coffee cups are used every year.

仅在美国，每年就使用 1200 亿个一次性咖啡杯。

In the UK, we throw away an estimated 2.5 billion disposable coffee cups every year.

在英国，我们每年扔掉大约 25 亿个一次性咖啡杯。

Our volunteers put the seedlings in disposable cups and hung them on the merchant windows as installations that reference the city grid that displaced the mangroves on that very barrier island.

我们的志愿者把幼苗放在一次性杯子里，挂在商人的窗户上，作为参考城市网格的装置，而城市网格正是这个屏障岛上的红树林。

Yes, there is a big problem with disposable cups in that many of them can't be recycled, so there is a lot of waste for something we only use for a short time.

是的，一次性杯子有一个很大的问题，因为它们很多都无法回收，所以对于一些我们只使用很短时间的东西来说，那很浪费。

Mr Mines, its chief executive, believes that this is the first time bioplastic has been used for disposable cups and lids that have to cope with hot liquid.

其首席执行官迈恩斯先生认为， 这是第一次将生物塑料用于必须应对热液体的一次性杯子和盖子。