BBC 6分钟英语学习 回收咖啡杯有什么不同吗

Hello, and welcome to Six Minute English.

I'm Neil, and I'm Rob. Now, rob, we've talked before on this program about our love of coffee.

Oh yes, indeed. I couldn't function without it.

But have you ever thought about the environment consequences

of all those disposable coffee cups?

Oh yes, indeed. I always carry a reusable cup with me so I don't have to throw one away.

So if a disposable cup is one you throw away, a reusable one is one that you can use again and again.

Yes, there's a big problem with disposable cups in that many of them can't be recycled, so there's a lot of waste for something we only use for a short time.

What are the big coffee shop chains doing about this problem?

We'll find out a little bit more shortly.

But 1st, a quiz for you.

Which country drinks the most coffee per capita?

So not the total amount of coffee, but the average per person.

Is it a japan B Kenya or C Finland?

What do you think? Rob Oh, tricky.

I don't think the Japanese are big coffee drinkers, and I know they produce a lot of coffee in Kenya.

I'm surprised the USA is on the list, but I'm going to go for Finland just because, well, we'll see if you are right later in the program.

On a recent BBC you and yours radio program, they discussed the topic of coffee cups.

Some of the big chains are now charging customers more for a disposable cup and giving discounts if people bring their own reusable.

However, not all of the shops actually collect old cups and sought them for recycling in the shop itself.

Here's Jasra Bardier from Starbucks. Is the store only interested in facilities inside their shops?

It is something that we, we are in the process of rolling out, and it will be in all of our stores.

It's also not just our stores in which these cups end up.

So we're doing a lot of work outside of our store environment to ensure that paper cups can be recycled on the go.

We're working with our environmental charity partner, hubbub, to increase recycling infrastructure outside of our stores, because that too is where a lot of our cups will end up.

So are they just working in their stores at improving recycling?

Well, no. After all, most people take their coffee out of the stores, so they're working on the recycling infrastructure outside as well.

This will be things like bins and collection points, which are clearly marked for coffee cups.

And what about enabling recycling cups in store?

Well, she said that was something they are rolling out to all stores.

Rolling out here means introducing over a period of time.

So it's starting to happen, but it's not finished yet.

Let's listen again. It is something that we, we are in the process of rolling out, and it will be in all of our stores.

It's also not just our stores in which these cups end up.

So we're doing a lot of work outside of our store environment to ensure that paper cups can be recycled on the go.

We're working with our environmental charity partner, hubbub, to increase recycling infrastructure outside of our stores, because that too is where a lot of our cups will end up.

Not everyone, however, believes that the coffee chains are doing everything that they can.

This is Mary Cray, a member of the British Parliament.

She compares the situation to that of the plastic bag charge.

This was a law brought in to force shops to charge customers for plastic bags, which previously had been free.

If you think you're having to pay extra for something, as we saw with the plastic bags, we think a similar psychological measure is needed, a nudge measure, to encourage people to remember to bring their reusable cup with them.

And of course, this is something that the coffee shops have been fighting tooth and nail.

She thinks that we consumers need a nudge to help us remember our reusable cups.

Yes, we need a nudge, which is a little push a reason.

In this case, she is thinking of a law to make them charge more.

but she says, the coffee chains really don't want this.

They are, she says, fighting it tooth to nail.

If you fight something tooth to nail, you're against it completely and try to stop it.

Let's hear MP merry cray again.

If you think you're having to pay extra for something, as we saw with the plastic bags, we think a similar psychological measure is needed, a nudge measure, to encourage people to remember to bring their reusable cup with them.

And of course, this is something that the coffee shops have been fighting tooth and nail.

Time to review our vocabulary. But 1st, let's have the answer to the quiz question Which country drinks the most coffee per capita?

Is it a Japan, B Kenya or C Finland?

What do you think, rob? I took a bit of a guess at Finland.

Well, congratulations. Your guess was correct.

The Fins, on average, get through an amazing 12 kg.

Of coffee a year each. Now, onto the vocab, we had a couple of related but opposite words.

Something disposable is designed to be used once or a few times and then thrown away, And a reusable is designed to be used again and again.

We then had rolling out, which in a business

sense, is the process of

gradually introducing something new. This could be a new system, new product, new technology, or even a new way of doing things.

New ideas often need new infrastructure.

This is usually physical structures that are needed to make

something work, e.g. rail Infrastructure includes things like tracks, stations and signals.

A nudge is a small push to encourage us to do something.

You don't need a nudge to carry a reusable coffee cup, do you?

Oh no, I'm all for it.

In fact, I'd fight tooth the nail to keep hold of my reusable which is quite a coincidence, as that was our last expression today.

To fight tooth and nail means to make a strong effort to try to stop something or achieve something.

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