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A Lot of Rubbish With dumps filling up fast, America is finally embracing （adopt） a new garbage ethic. 由于垃圾场正在很快被填满，美国终于采用新的垃圾处理方法。 By William J. Cook America, unhappily, is bullish(like a bull) on garbage. Our production of refuse, now about 160 million tons a year, will rise to 193 million tons by the end of the century if nothing is done. This growing effluence( production, making) of affluence (wellbeing), 31/2 pounds a day for every American and rising, is a byproduct of our consumer society, whose watchwords (口号) are convenience, ready to use and throw-away. And it has become a major n