TED演讲:消灭铺张浪费,我们需要重新认识节俭(2)

That problem is that there is really no way. When you throw something away, it typically goes into a landfill. 问题就是,那些东西根本没有办法真正的消失。当我们丢掉一些东西时,它们通常会被送到垃圾填埋场。 Now, a landfill is basically something which is not going to go away, and it’s increasing. 而垃圾填埋场是不会消失的,而且现在规模还在不断增加。 At the mom...

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TED演讲:消灭铺张浪费,我们需要重新认识节俭(5)

Digital manufacturing is also allowing us to do this more effectively. In this case, it’s actually creating the theoretical limit of strength for a material. 数字化制造也可以帮助我们进行更有效的回收再利用。这个例子说明了一种材料的理论极限强度。 you cannot get any stronger for the amount of material than this shape. So it’s a basic simple block, 你不可能...

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TED演讲:消灭铺张浪费,我们需要重新认识节俭(7)

What do we do with them? This process is able not just to recycle them, but to recycle them infinitely. 那我们能做些什么呢?我们不仅应该让水瓶可以回收再利用,而且应该让这个过程无限进行下去。 Why is that interesting? Because when we think about reusing and recycling, 为什么这点很有意思呢?因为像那些能重复利用和回收再利用的东西, metals, glass, things like that, c...

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TED演讲:消灭铺张浪费,我们需要重新认识节俭(4)

If there’s a building down the block which is being demolished, are there materials there that the new building being built here can use? 如果不远处有一栋楼正在被拆毁,拆下来的这些材料中有没有一些是这边的新建筑物可以使用的? Can we use that, the ability to understand that all the materials available in that building are still usable? Can we then basically 我...

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TED演讲:消灭铺张浪费,我们需要重新认识节俭(1)

Let’s talk about thrift. Thrift is a concept where you reduce, reuse and recycle, but yet with an economic aspect I think has a real potential for change. 让我们说说节俭。节俭是一个关于减少使用,重复利用,回收再利用的一个概念,但在经济方面,我觉得它可以带来真正的改变。 My grandmother, she knew about thrift. This is her string jar. She never bought any string. ...

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TED演讲:消灭铺张浪费,我们需要重新认识节俭(3)

Ninety-five percent of every single car that goes on the road gets recycled here. 所有在路上跑的汽车中,有95%都会被回收循环使用。 And of that car, about 75 percent of the entire car actually gets used again. 而每辆车75%的部分又会被回收重新使用。 That includes, of course, the old steel and aluminum but then also the plastics from the fender and the interiors, ...

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TED演讲:消灭铺张浪费,我们需要重新认识节俭(6)

you can isolate it, and it works very much like carbon fiber. 你可以对它进行分离,它的性质跟碳纤维非常相似。 So, take that from a tree, form it into fibers, and then those fibers can strengthen things, such as airplanes, buildings, cars. 从树木中提取纤维素,接着再制成纤维,然后这些纤维能用来加固东西,例如飞机、建筑物、汽车。 The advantage of this, though, is it&...

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