• 瑞典环保工作太出色 生活垃圾不足1%

    16-12-27 Sweden is so good at recycling that, for several years, it has imported rubbish from other countries to keep its recycling plants going. Less than 1 percent of Swedish household waste was sent to landfill last year or any year since 2011. 这些年瑞典...

  • rubbish selfie 垃圾自拍

    14-08-14 A rubbish selfie is a selfie taken against the background of rubbish. A selfie is usually designed to portray its subject in a positive light, but Tunisian citizens are subverting that idea by taking photos with rubbish. 垃圾自拍就是以垃圾为背景进行...

  • 意清洁工错将艺术品扔进垃圾桶

    14-03-02 A cleaning woman in southern Italy has unwittingly thrown away contemporary artworks that were supposed to be part of an exhibition. 在意大利南部,一位女清洁工不小心把当代艺术作品扔进垃圾桶,这些作品是一个展览会的一部分。 Lorenzo Roca, head of the c...

  • 英国乐购用食品车运垃圾引争议

    13-12-09 Tesco is using its food delivery lorries to pick up rubbish from stores in an attempt to cut costs. 英国零售连锁公司乐购为了降低成本,用送食品的车运超市垃圾。 The UK's largest retailer has stopped using waste contractors(承包商) to pick up and dis...

  • 古废墟中出土罗马石刻神像

    13-07-05 An 1,800-year-old carved stone head of what is believed to be a Roman god has been unearthed in an ancient rubbish dump. Archaeologists made the discovery at Binchester Roman Fort, near Bishop Auckland, in County Durham. First year Durham University...

  • Pay as you throw 垃圾按量收费

    12-07-03 Pay as you throw (also PAYT) is a system in which households are charged for collection of non-recyclable rubbish, and that the amount they pay is based on the quantity and weight of the rubbish they want collected. The system usually operates with...

  • 英国家庭每年将限量扔垃圾

    11-01-29 Families face being rationed to 80 bags of rubbish a year. Households throwing away more waste will have to take it to the tip or buy a limited number of extra bags. 英国家庭面临每年只能扔80袋垃圾的限令。扔的垃圾超过80袋的家庭得自己将多余的垃圾送到...

  • 蒙娜丽莎原型的遗骸错被挖掘丢弃

    10-10-17 The remains of the Italian woman who was the model for Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa were dug up 30 years ago and now lie in a municipal rubbish tip, an Italian expert has claimed. 意大利一位专家日前表示,早在30年前,列奥纳多达芬奇笔下的《蒙娜丽莎》...

  • 调查:女性经常忽视男性所做的家务活

    10-03-19 Men do far more housework than they are given credit for, according to research that claims women do not notice because their male partners don't make a fuss. 一项调查称,男性所做的家务活远比他们得到承认的多。女人之所以对他们的贡献视而不见,是因为他...

  • 'Big step' needed on UK landfill 英国垃圾堆处理需要“跨越一

    09-10-13 Standing in a huge hole in the ground which is slowly being filled with thousands of tonnes of stinking rubbish it's easy to see why landfill gets a bad press. 站在地上一个巨大的坑洞旁边看到成千上万吨发出恶臭的垃圾被填进去,大家就会理解为什么垃圾堆...