Rainbow-coloured rubbish. This is the colourful waste created by a Swedish city with a unique recycling system.
各種顏色的垃圾。是瑞典那邊經過的特別的回收系統生產出來的彩色垃圾。
Like many cities in Sweden, Eskilstuna has an impressive recycling record.
和瑞典的許多城市一樣，它們在回收利用這個領域裡取得了非常好的成績，比如埃斯基爾斯蒂納。
It met the EU's 2020 target of recycling 50% of waste many years ago. .
多年前，它就達到了歐盟2020年回收50%垃圾的目標。
But almost everyone who lives here follows a strict recycling policy at home.
但幾乎每個住在這裡的人在家裡都遵守嚴格的回收政策。
People are expected to sort their household waste into seven separate categories, including food, textiles, cartons and metal.
人們將把生活垃圾分成七類，包括食物、紡織品、紙箱和金屬。
But what really makes the system stand out is the bright colour code.
但真正使這個回收系統脫穎而出的是明亮的顏色代碼。
The reason for this becomes clear at the city's recycling plant.
在這座城市的回收廠，這樣做的原因顯而易見。
The bags arrive all jumbled up because they' re collected altogether, once a fortnight from outside people' s houses.
這些垃圾袋送來時全部混在一起，因為這些垃圾是回收廠那邊每隔兩週從每個住戶那裡收來的。
But thanks to those bright colours, scanners can select the bags and separate them efficiently.
但幸虧這些垃圾袋色彩明亮，掃描器可以高效地把它們進行挑揀和分離。
The food waste in green bags is processed on site into slurry to make bio gas, which powers the city's buses.
根據垃圾袋顏色的不同，而被分別利用，比如綠色的垃圾袋裡面的垃圾會被加工成泥漿，然後製作出沼氣，用來給城市公共汽車驅動。
One of the benefits of this method of recycling is that there is less cross-contamination, so more of the recycled waste can actually be used to make new things.
這種回收方法的好處之一是減少了交叉汙染，所以更多的回收物品實際上可以用來製造新東西。
Like the rest of Sweden, Eskilstuna is committed to sending zero waste from its citizens to landfill.
跟瑞典其他的城市一樣，埃斯基爾斯蒂納市把居民的生活垃圾降為0為目標。
Waste that cannot be recycled is incinerated at a local plant to generate electricity.
不能回收的廢棄物會被當地的發電廠用來焚燒發電。
This reduces reliance on fossil fuels, but doescreate greenhouse gases.
雖然這減少了對化石燃料的依賴，但是產生了一些溫室氣體。
As countries around the world try to improve their recycling rates, some may look to Eskilstuna as an example to follow - as long asthey think they can persuade their citizens to get busy sorting at home.
世界上很多國家都在想發設法地提高垃圾回收率，一些國家也會以埃斯基爾斯蒂納為榜樣，效仿它的做法，前提是要能說服市民在家中勤於分類。
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