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【参考译文】 To humankind as a whole, the appearance and spread of disposable products probably constitutes an ecological disaster. Over the past decade, a growing number of environmental protection activists have been raising their arms to wage war on disposable products—no one-time-use articles such as toothbrush, toothpaste, or soap are provided at hotels, no one-time-use chopsticks are available at restaurants, and no one-time-use free plastic shopping bags are offered to customers at supermarkets. Obviously, we can no longer afford to keep ourselves out of this worldwide anti-disposable-product effort. Indeed, as a big consumer country of one-time-use products, we should not shirk our responsibility. Some people argue that the plastic was the worst invention ever made by humankind in the 20th century, and of all the things made of plastics, one-time plastic bags are by far the most harmful products to our ecology. To be sure, restricting the use of plastic bags may cause considerable inconvenience in our daily life. But such temporary inconveniences are nothing to us if we do want to get rid of pollution on our planet, see the return of blue water and blue sky, and leave to our posterity a clean earth. Hopefully, rejecting the use of plastic shopping bags is just a good beginning, for the significance of saying “NO” to one-use products does not merely lie in reducing the amount of “white rubbish.” More significantly, it is meant to exert a powerful impact on the consumption habits of the general public that has already taken single-use products for granted. Therefore, we must heighten our vigilance to put to a quick end the disaster of white pollution. This is not only the mission of our generation, but our cultural responsibility as well.