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Every day, Americans throw away 500 million plastic straws, enough to circle the Earth twice, or fill 125 school buses. 每天美国人都要扔掉5亿根塑料吸管，足以绕地球两圈，或者装满125辆校车。 Made from fossil fuels, they are almost never recycled because they're too small and could be made from several different types of plastic. They simply contribute to the massive problem of plastic pollution; eight million tons of plastic is dumped into the oceans every year. 用化石燃料制成的塑料吸管几乎从来不会被回收利用，因为它们体积太小，而且可能是由好几种不同类型的塑料制成的。这些吸管直接加剧了塑料污染的严重问题，每年都会有800万吨塑料被倾倒进海洋中。 | 
