Take " expanded polystyrene" , for example, which you know as " Styrofoam" .

比如说“发泡聚乙烯”，也就是大家知道的“泡沫聚乙烯”。

Tastes have evolved: polystyrene cups have long replaced elegant coffee sets in many situations.

聚苯乙烯杯子许多情况下早已取代了优雅的咖啡具。

Now it's mainly plain paper and polystyrene, but the skillful wrapping and excitement of unwrapping remains.

现主要的材料是普通纸张和聚苯乙烯，但巧妙的和拆时的兴奋感仍然存。

Polystyrene can take thousands of years to degrade.

聚苯乙烯可能需要数千才能降解。

In fact all it is, is a tiny polystyrene bead.

事实上，它就是一个微小的聚苯乙烯珠。

Polymerize it, polystyrene. Make a foam out of it, Styrofoam.

聚合它，聚苯乙烯。 用它做泡沫， 聚苯乙烯泡沫塑料。

Polystyrene ceiling tiles, no natural daylight, the least inspiring place to meet people.

聚苯乙烯天花板，没有自然采光，是最不鼓舞人心的会面场所。

Now, if you're wondering about that polystyrene clamshell, yeah, we ditched it.

现，如果您想知道那个聚苯乙烯翻盖，是的，我们抛弃了它。

In the 1920s, researchers first commercially developed polystyrene, a spongy plastic used in insulation.

1920 代，研究人员首次商业发聚苯乙烯，一种用于绝缘的海绵塑料。

They then printed just the Giga's head and cut it out of polystyrene.

然后他们只打印了 Giga 的头部，并用聚苯乙烯将其切割出来。

The speaker's create areas of high pressure that can trap a polystyrene bead and suspend it in midair.

扬声器会产生高压区域，可以捕获聚苯乙烯珠并将其悬浮半空中。

But then it was discovered in 2015 that these little grubs could eat polystyrene and a whole new line of research opened up.

但是2015，人们发现这些小东西可以吃聚苯乙烯，于是一个全新的研究方向就出现了。

There are also new bans in parts of the country on polystyrene packaging and microbeads that are found in personal care and cleaning products.

澳大利亚部分地区还出台了新的禁令，禁止聚苯乙烯，以及个人护理和清洁产品中存的塑料微球。

While it can technically be recycled, it's not particularly practical, because a truck full of lightweight, air-filled Styrofoam doesn't melt down into a lot of polystyrene.

尽管从技术角度能被回收，但是不是特别实用，因为一卡车又轻又蓬松的泡沫塑料并不能够熔化成大量的聚苯乙烯。

The Save-a-Cup scheme was set up by the vending and plastics industries to recycle as many as possible of the three-and-a-half billion polystyrene cups used each year.

“节省杯子”计划通过兜售和塑料业每尽可能多地回收35亿聚苯乙烯杯而成立。

Organic rafting materials such as trees and root masses have far shorter lives at sea, when compared to synthetic materials such as fiberglass or polystyrene.

与玻璃纤维或聚苯乙烯等合成材料相比，树木和根系等有机漂流材料海上的寿命要短得多。

It’s collecting all sorts from sort of tiny bits, plastic needles and bits of polystyrene, all the way up to bits of broken bucking plastic bottle as well.”

它收集各种各种各样的东西，从细小的塑料碎片、聚苯乙烯碎片和各种各样碎掉的塑料瓶。

Beside us, dotted along the stands and clutching polystyrene cups of coffee and hip flasks, were men in tweedy suits and women in smart padded coats.

我们旁边， 散布看台上， 手里拿着聚苯乙烯杯咖啡和酒壶，是穿着粗花呢西的男人和穿着漂亮的衬垫外套的女人。

What throws a spanner in the works is the layer of polyethylene that makes the cup waterproof, and the lid, which is most often made of polystyrene.

工作中投入扳手的是使杯子防水的聚乙烯层， 以及通常由聚苯乙烯制成的盖子。