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回收香皂

生活中有許多無意間的浪費，從沒想過我們旅遊時飯店客房所提供的香皂，在我們退房後去哪了呢？原來香皂對我們的生活有如此大的重要性。來看相關文章…

必考單字

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discard [dɪsˋkɑrd ] (v.) 拋棄、屏棄
commodity [kəˋmɑdətɪ] (n.) 商品、日用品
estimate [ˋɛstə͵met] (v.) 估計、估量
hygiene [ˋhaɪdʒin] (n.) 衛生
impact [ɪmˋpækt] (v.) 影響、衝擊

(n.) 名詞 (v.) 動詞 (adj.) 形容詞 (adv.) 副詞

文章賞析

Next time you check out of a hotel, spare a thought for the barely touched bar of soap left behind in your room.
下次你從飯店退房時，花一點心思回想你剛剛留在房間的那塊幾乎沒用的香皂。
Around the world, five million hotel soaps make their way to landfills every single day. But Clean the World aims turn those discarded slabs into a life-changing commodity.
全世界每天有五百萬個飯店香皂變成垃圾。但是，潔世組織目標是將這些被拋棄的東西，變成改善生活的日用品。
With recycling centers in the United States and Hong Kong, the not-for-profit corporation has partnered with 5,000 hotels internationally to recycle soap from nearly one million hotel rooms daily, distributing them instead to families, schools and organizations in need.
這個非營利的組織在美國與香港都設有回收中心，與5000家國際飯店合作，每天從將近一百萬個飯店房間回收香皂，再把它分送給有需要的家庭、學校或相關組織機構。
Why? UNICEF estimates that 1.4 million children a year die from diseases such as pneumonia and cholera, easily preventable with better hygiene.
為什麼呢？聯合國兒童基金會估計每年有140萬名孩子死於肺炎及霍亂，而這些疾病只要有較佳的衛生條件即可輕易預防的。
"Soap and health and hygiene have a huge impact in our world," founder Shawn Seipler tells CNN.
「香皂、健康與衛生對於我們生存的世界是有強大的影響的」創辦人Shawn Seipler這麼告訴CNN。
"Soap impacts health. Soap impacts one's environment. Soap impacts economic issues. Soap impacts the rate at which infectious disease spreads."
「香皂影響了健康，香皂影響了一個人的生存環境。香皂影響了經濟學的議題。香皂影響了傳染性疾病發生的比例。」
文章節錄自：http://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/01/hotels/clean-the-world-asia-hotel-soaps-recycle/index.html