小日子，大意义：

（世界环境日了解一下）

World Environment Day (WED) occurs on the 5th of June every year, and is the United Nation's principal vehicle for encouraging awareness and action for the protection of our environment. First held in 1974, it has been a flagship campaign for raising awareness on emerging environmental issues from marine pollution, human overpopulation, and global warming, to sustainable consumption and wildlife crime. WED has grown to become a global platform for public outreach, with participation from over 143 countries annually. Each year, WED has a new theme that major corporations, NGOs, communities, governments and celebrities worldwide adopt to advocate environmental causes.

作为地球人，我们的同类在做什么？

看到这个小朋友身后的背囊了么？这是一款将披风（poncho）以及马鞍袋（mochila）结合在一起的，专门为那些生活在安第斯山附近需要走很远的路去上学的小朋友设计的保护装置，更赞的是，用来生产这些装置的材料是塑料瓶！

Trash is not garbage. This is the motto of one of Peru’s most innovative recycling campaigns, one that has already turned a million plastic bottles into thousands of ponchilas.

In Peru, aponchila – a combination of the Spanish words “poncho” and “mochila” – refers to a backpack with a built-in poncho. The items were designed to protect the poorest children in the Andes, many of whom must travel several kilometers a day, often in inclement（恶劣的）weather, to get to school.

And ponchilas have one other important benefit: Each item is made out of 80 recycled plastic bottles.

“With this initiative, we are recovering a lot of plastic that could end up in landfills, dumps or in the oceans,” says Miguel Nárvaez, head of social and business responsibility at Cencosud, a supermarket chain and one of the companies that leads the campaign.

作为一个世界性的大日子，当然要有个世界性的演讲，所以今天我们的推送就以联合国秘书长（António Guterres）的演讲结束吧。

Message on World Environment Day

世界环境日致辞

5 June 2018

2018年6月5日

A healthy planet is essential for a prosperous and peaceful future. We all have arole to play in protecting our only home, but it can be difficult to know what to do or where to start. That’s why this World Environment Day has just one request: beat plastic pollution.

健康的星球是繁荣、和平未来的根本。保护我们唯一的家园，我们人人有责。但是，怎么做、从哪里开始，也许很难知道。因此，这个世界环境日只有一个要求：战胜塑料污染。

Our world is swamped by harmful plastic waste. Every year, more than 8 million tonnes end up in the oceans. Microplastics in the seas now outnumber stars in our galaxy. From remote islands to the Artic, nowhere is untouched. If present trends continue, by 2050 our oceans will have more plastic than fish.

我们这个世界随处可见有害的塑料垃圾。每年有超过800万吨流入海洋。海洋中的塑料微粒现已超过我们银河系中的星球数目。从偏远岛屿到北极，没有任何地方不受污染。如果当前的趋势持续下去，那么到2050年，我们海洋中的塑料将比鱼类还要多。

On World Environment Day, the message is simple: reject single-use plastic. Refuse what you can’t re-use.

在世界环境日，要传递的信息很简单：拒绝使用一次性塑料。拒绝不可再次使用的东西。

Together, we can chart a path to a cleaner, greener world.

通过共同努力，我们能够开辟一条通往更清洁、更环保世界的道路。

Thank you.

谢谢各位。