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Love coffee but care about the environment?
能夠愛咖啡也同時愛護好我們所處的環境?
Then you may have a dilemma. An estimated 60 billion paper cups in the U.S. end up in landfills every year because they can't be recycled easily. That includes cups sold by all major coffee chains. But Starbucks, the market leader, may have found a solution.
也許你會困惑，在美國每年約有600億咖啡杯結果進垃圾掩埋場，是因為它們沒被妥善垃圾分類，這也包含大型連鎖咖啡店內售出的的咖啡紙杯，但是在咖啡市場的龍頭─星巴克，應該找出一個解決之道。
A coffee cup is an environmental nightmare. Most are made from cardboard with a thin layer of plastic tightly attached to the cup. This keeps the drink warm and prevents the cardboard from becoming soggy. But it also makes the cup non-recyclable. It takes about 20 years for such a cup to decompose.
一個咖啡杯會造成環境的夢魘。大部分的紙杯都是紙板做成並由外圍有薄層的塑膠，做成隔熱和避免紙杯浸水。但是這樣也使得紙杯不能回收，20年才能使一個
杯子分解。
Campaigners have long been pushing for retailers to start using more sustainable cups, or at least come clean about the impact their cups have on the environment.
活動發起人長期以來也一直推動零售商開始使用一些可重覆使用杯子或至少come clean about the 影響環境的杯子。
Related: This German city just banned coffee pods相關新聞: 德國城市禁止咖啡包
Several major chains in the U.K., including Starbucks (SBUX), McDonald's (MCD), KFC and Pret a Manger signed a "Paper Cup Manifesto" last month, pledging to step up efforts to boost recycling rates.
英國大部分多數連鎖商 包含星巴克，麥當勞，肯德基和Pret 經理在上個月都簽訂了「紙杯宣言」，承諾加緊努力來提升回收成效。
On Wednesday, Starbucks agreed to take the issue further and test a new fully recyclable kind of coffee cup in the U.K.
在禮拜三，星巴克也同意採取這項宣言，並在英國測試全面更新可回收的咖啡杯。
The cups are made from recycled paper by British packaging company Frugalpac, which pitched the idea to Starbucks. A plastic liner is only lightly bonded onto the paper after the cup's shape is formed. The design allows the plastic lining to be easily separated in a recycling plant -- the liner gets stuck in the filters, while the cardboard goes through and can be recycled and used again, up to seven times, mostly to print newspapers.
紙杯由再生紙做成是由英國包裝公司Frugalpac將該想法投遞到星巴克。一個塑膠襯墊只會在紙杯成型後輕微結合起來，這個設計使塑膠襯墊能夠輕易的分解至回收廠─襯墊會在濾網阻塞，當紙板穿透和被回收並再次使用，高達數次後多數的廢紙則是印製成報紙。
The entrepreneur behind the Frugalpac cup design, Martin Myerscough, said people are often shocked to learn that existing paper cups are only used once and rarely get recycled. The perception is that because the cups are made mostly of paper, the material can be reused.
企業在Frugalpac 杯子設計之前，Martin Myerscough說：「人們通常會訝異到存在紙杯只能使用一次且鮮少能再回收」這個觀點是因為杯子大部分由紙做成，材料是可被再製的。
"We really hope that Frugalpac becomes the standard in the industry so people can get on with enjoying their coffee without worrying about what damage the cup does to the environment afterwards," said Myerscough.
「我們相當希望Frugalpac 成為工業中卓越的代表，此外人們可以暢快品茗咖啡也無須庸擾紙杯會造成環境上的污染了」Myerscough說
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