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你还在用塑料吸管吗？研究人员发现，即使全球的人们从现在起扔掉吸管，尽量减少塑料垃圾的产生，到2040年塑料垃圾还是会达到7亿吨以上，这对于海洋和野生动植物都是一场灾难。 Photo by Brian Yurasits on Unsplash If the world embarked on an immediate and globally-coordinated effort to reduce our plastic consumption, there would still be an estimated 710 million metric tons of plastic that will pollute the environment by 2040, new research has found. 新研究发现，如果全世界联合起来立即采取行动来降低塑料消费，预计到2040年污染环境的塑料垃圾仍将达到7.1亿公吨。 The study, from a group of international researchers and published in the journal Science on Thursday, found that even in a "best-case scenario" where the amount of plastic pollution was reduced by 80% by 2040, there would still be a massive build-up of accumulated plastic. 一个跨国研究团队开展的这项研究发现，即使在“最好的情况下”，也就是到2040年塑料污染总量减少80%，累积的塑料垃圾总量仍然会很庞大。该研究本周四Millions of tons of plastic enter the oceans every year, polluting the seas, littering beaches and endangering wildlife. Plastic particles have been found in soils, in the atmosphere and even in the most remote regions of Earth, such as Antarctica. Microplastics are also eaten by fish and other sea creatures, where they enter the food chain. | 
