A New Brooklyn Store Designed for Zero Waste減少食物浪費(fèi)，從一家小店做起

⊙ By Adam Wernick ⊙ 翻譯：T Boy

我們都知道，紐約是一個(gè)高消費(fèi)城市。高消費(fèi)的其中一個(gè)后果常常是大量的垃圾和嚴(yán)重浪費(fèi)。但在紐約，有些人并不覺得這些是理所當(dāng)然的事。他們正盡一己之力，為改變這種現(xiàn)象而努力。盡管他們還不是紐約的主流，但他們也在悄悄地改變著紐約的形象。

1) fridge [fr?d?] n. 冰箱

Host: If you’re like most people, you probably have a1)fridge and cupboard with a number of half-used packages. Even if you only need a cup or two of some ingredient, it comes by the2)pound or3)quart.And all too often, eventually what’s left goes4)stale and into the5)garbage. That waste was part of the reason Sarah Metz decided to6)launch a store called “The Fillery.” It’s designed to reduce waste and save money.You see, at The Fillery, shoppers will bring their own7)reusable containers and only buy what they need.

So, tell us about The Fillery. What kinds of goods are you planning to sell?

Sarah: We’ll have everything from nuts and seeds to baking ingredients, whole grains,coffee and tea, probably more than 100 different spices. And we’ll also have liquids like8)syrup and oil and vinegar, even a few household cleaning products will be9)available for10)refill.

Host: What inspired you to open this store?Sarah: I’ve been an eco-conscious person for a long time, and I moved to Brooklyn about 10 years ago, and, when I saw the amounts of waste being11)generated in New York City, I was just12)shocked. I thought back to a store I shopped at in Michigan, and it was a small bulk store, and I really loved that concept, and, still, after 10 years of living in my neighborhood, nothing like that exists.So, I just decided to do it myself.

Host: So how much waste do stores typically produce, Sarah? What are we talking about here?

Sarah: Right, that varies quite a bit depending on what type of store you’re talking about or what type of business. But a report that was in Politico13)estimates that waste collection trucks14)haul approximately 10,000 tons of business waste every single day in New York,so you can imagine there are probably a very conservative estimate would be 100,000 businesses, so, about 200 pounds per business per day on average.

Host: So, how much do you expect to reduce food waste? We see figures that about a third of all food is wasted, one way or another.

Sarah: Right! I think that teaching people to buy only what they need is gonna be a big part of that. Community education is a big part of what we hope for The Fillery to offer, and part of that will be teaching people how to plan their meals and how to buy in quantities that are useable for them before the product goes bad. So, we are hoping that that will contribute to reduction of food waste.

Host: Hey, what will you do when people come to your store without containers? I mean that’s likely to happen.

Sarah: It is very likely to happen, and I think that’s one concern that many people haveis just the15)feasibility of carrying around their own containers if they’re not necessarily planning to go grocery shopping. We will have16)compostable paper bags available for dry goods, for free, for all customers. We will also have other containers for purchase, so everything from17)jars and tins and bottles for the liquids. Nothing plastic.

2) pound [pa?nd] n. 磅（重量單位，約0.454千克）

3) quart [kw??t] n. 夸脫（液體計(jì)量單位，約1.14升）

4) stale [ste?l] adj. 不新鮮的，陳舊的

5) garbage [?ɡɑ?b?d?] n. 垃圾，垃圾箱

6) launch [l??nt?] v. 開始

7) reusable [ri??ju?z?b?l] adj. 可再用的，可重復(fù)使用的

8) syrup [?s?r?p] n. 糖漿

9) available [??ve?l?b（?）l] adj. 可得到的，可利用的

10) re fi ll [ri??f?l] n. 再裝滿

11) generate [?d?en?re?t] v. 產(chǎn)生

12) shocked [??kt] adj. 震驚的

13) estimate [?est?me?t] v. 估計(jì)

14) haul [h??l] v. 拖，拉

15) feasibility [fi?z??b?l?t?] n. 可行性，可能性

16) compostable [k?m?p?st?bl]adj. 可堆肥的

17) jar [d?ɑ?（r）] n. 壇子，廣口瓶

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And all too often, eventually what’s left goes stale and into the garbage.

All、too和often三個(gè)副詞加在一起，似乎讓人很難分清楚哪個(gè)是主，哪個(gè)是次，要弄明白意思就更難了。其實(shí)，all too是一個(gè)固定搭配，作“太，實(shí)在太”解，后常跟各種形容詞和副詞，強(qiáng)調(diào)程度。在本文的例句中，解決了all too這個(gè)問(wèn)題，我們就知道all too often就是“經(jīng)常，時(shí)常，常?！钡囊馑?，指事情發(fā)生的頻率非常高，如：

● She is all too ready to accept the job.（她太想要那份工作了。）

● All too often, kids trust their teachers more than others.（大多數(shù)時(shí)候，孩子信任老師多于他人。）

參考譯文

主持人：如果你的做法和其他大部分人一樣的話，那你的冰箱和櫥柜里可能會(huì)有不少食物只裝了一半的包裝盒。即使你只需要一兩杯某種烹飪?cè)?，但它也是以磅或夸脫為單位售賣的。更多的時(shí)候，里面的食物會(huì)慢慢變得不再新鮮，被扔進(jìn)了垃圾箱。這種浪費(fèi)現(xiàn)象正是莎拉·梅茨決定開店的部分原因，她的店名叫The Fillery。這家店旨在減少浪費(fèi)，并且為你省錢。你瞧，在這家店里，購(gòu)物者會(huì)自己帶來(lái)可重復(fù)使用的容器，并且只購(gòu)買自己需要的數(shù)量。

那么給我們講講The Fillery這家店吧。你打算在店里賣哪些商品？

莎拉：嗯，什么都有，堅(jiān)果和瓜子、烘焙原料、全谷類食物、咖啡和茶，大概會(huì)有一百多種調(diào)味品。我們也會(huì)出售液體商品，如糖漿、油和醋，甚至有好幾種家居使用的清潔用品也可續(xù)買。

主持人：是什么促使你開這樣一家店呢？

莎拉：很長(zhǎng)時(shí)間以來(lái)，我有較強(qiáng)的生態(tài)意識(shí)。我大約在十年前搬到布魯克林，了解了紐約市產(chǎn)生的垃圾量后非常震驚。我回想起我在密歇根州住時(shí)去購(gòu)物的一家商店，那是一家售賣散裝商品的小店，我非常喜歡那種做法?？墒俏以谧约旱淖≌瑓^(qū)生活了十年，還是沒有看到類似的商店。于是我就決定自己干了。

主持人：那通常來(lái)說(shuō)，莎拉，一般商店會(huì)產(chǎn)生多少垃圾呢？我們?cè)谡務(wù)摰木烤故且粋€(gè)什么樣的狀況呢？

莎拉：嗯，商店或企業(yè)的類型不同，情況會(huì)很不一樣。不過(guò)，《政客》雜志上的一篇文章估計(jì)，在紐約，垃圾收集車每一天運(yùn)送的企業(yè)垃圾大概是一萬(wàn)噸。那你就可以想一下，一個(gè)非常保守的估計(jì)是紐約有十萬(wàn)家企業(yè)，也就是說(shuō)每家企業(yè)平均一天會(huì)產(chǎn)生兩百磅垃圾。

主持人：那么你預(yù)計(jì)你的店能減少多少食物浪費(fèi)呢？我們看到的一些數(shù)據(jù)表明，大約有三分之一的食物會(huì)以不同的方式被浪費(fèi)。

莎拉：對(duì)！我認(rèn)為，教育人們只買自己需要的量是很關(guān)鍵的。我們希望在The Fillery提供的服務(wù)中，社區(qū)教育能成為一個(gè)重要的部分。我們會(huì)教人們?nèi)绾斡?jì)劃自己的餐飲，如何確保購(gòu)買的數(shù)量可以在食物變質(zhì)前食用完。我們希望這樣做會(huì)有助于減少食物浪費(fèi)。

主持人：嘿，如果來(lái)店里的顧客沒有帶容器你們會(huì)怎么做？我的意思是，這情況很可能會(huì)發(fā)生呢。

莎拉：非?？赡馨l(fā)生。我想許多人都會(huì)有這個(gè)顧慮：如果他們事先沒有打算去買食品，那把自家的容器隨身攜帶的做法并不現(xiàn)實(shí)。我們店會(huì)向所有顧客免費(fèi)提供裝干貨的環(huán)保紙袋，這些紙袋可通過(guò)堆肥進(jìn)行處理；我們也會(huì)出售其他容器，包括盛放液體的壇子、金屬罐和瓶子等，但不會(huì)提供塑料容器。