2014届高考英语考前突破阅读理解能力：《英国乐购用食品车运垃圾引争议》.docVIP

英国乐购用食品车运垃圾引争议 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 UKs largest retailer has stopped using waste contractors（承包商） to pick up and dispose of general rubbish, including unsold food, from its 600 largest supermarkets. Instead, bags of waste are piled into metal wheeled cages lined with clear plastic. These cages are picked up by the same trucks that deliver food to the stores once they have emptied their load. The trucks drop off the rubbish at a waste centre before returning to Tescos distribution centres to pick up more groceries and food to start the cycle again. ? A Tesco spokeswoman said the system, which does not involve the smaller vans that make home deliveries to customers, was more environmentally friendly. We have recently introduced a new way of managing waste in some of our stores, which will remove 20,000 additional trips a year and reduce our carbon emissions by 4.5 tonnes a year. ? The spokeswoman insisted there was no risk to food hygiene: We have high standards of hygiene（卫生，保健） and food safety, and we require all vehicles to be inspected and cleared after every trip, with additional cleaning if required, alongside regular deep cleans. ?However, notices posted at Tescos recycling centre, seen by the Guardian, suggest only a quarter of the delivery fleet is sanitised or washed each week, although any driver is able to request a wash for his lorry if he feels it necessary. ? One source close to the process said the thin plastic used to line the cages that transport bin bags was easily damaged so that liquid from putrefying rubbish could spill on to the floor of lorries. Meanwhile store staff sometimes did not have time to sort or wrap the rubbish adequately. ? The source said there was not the time or resources to wash every trailer after each collection of general waste. With hundreds of Tesco stores around the country, some lorries can do several deliver