城市采矿工厂是否能够破解全球电子垃圾泛滥难题

2014-07-08 17:33:07来源：可可英语

　　With support from the Arkansas Teachers’ Retirement Fund, a consortium of European and domestic investors, and the Arkansas Development Finance Authority, BlueOak’s new refinery will process 15 million pounds of electronic scrap per year initially, rapidly expanding from there. Production will begin by the end of 2015, bringing 50 technical jobs to the area. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is one of BlueOak’s major investors.

　　蓝橡树公司准备建设的新冶炼厂获得了来自阿肯色州教师退休基金(Arkansas Teachers’ Retirement Fund)，一个由欧洲和美国国内投资者组成的财团，以及阿肯色开发金融管理局(Arkansas Development Finance Authority)的支持。这座工厂计划在起初阶段每年处理1,500万磅电子废料，随后将迅速扩大。这家冶炼厂将于2015年末正式投产，预计将为当地带来50个技术工作岗位。凯鹏华盈风投公司(Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers)是蓝橡树的主要投资者之一。

　　‘For every ounce, 30 tons of waste’

　　“开采一盎司黄金会生产30吨垃圾”

　　“Developing a 21st-century, high-quality recovery process for the valuable materials in electronic waste is very important,” said Allen Hershkowitz, senior scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council’s Urban Program.

　　“开发一种面向21世纪，针对电子垃圾蕴含的贵重材料的高品质回收流程，具有非常重要的意义，”供职于美国自然资源保护委员会(Natural Resources Defense Council)都市的资深科学家艾伦o赫什科维茨说。

　　E-waste is the fastest-growing component of the municipal solid waste stream, and given all the precious metals, valuable plastics and recyclable glass electronics contain, “the fact that these are being routinely discarded makes no sense,” Hershkowitz said.

　　电子垃圾是城市固体废弃物中增长最快的组成部分，鉴于电子产品包含了大量贵金属、贵重塑料和可回收玻璃，赫什科维茨说，“它们遭到习惯性地丢弃这个事实简直不合情理。”

　　Indeed, roughly 10 ounces of gold can be extracted from every ton of printed circuit boards, Bradoo said; you’d need to process 100 tons of gold ore or more to get the same amount.

　　布拉多说，事实上，从每吨印刷电路板中可提取大约10盎司黄金。而要获得相同数量的黄金，人们至少需要处理100吨金矿石。

　　More to the point, “for every ounce of gold that has to be mined in the field, we produce 30 tons of waste” including mercury and cyanide, Hershkowitz said. “Compare that with recovering an ounce of gold from electronic waste—you’d eliminate that gigantic ecological burden.”

　　更重要的是，“在矿山开采一盎司黄金会生产30吨废物，”其中包括汞和氰化物，赫什科维茨说。“相比之下，从电子垃圾中回收黄金，可以消除如此巨大的生态负担。”

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