环保姐妹花：让巴厘岛与塑料袋说拜拜.docVIP

环保姐妹花：让巴厘岛与塑料袋说拜拜 　　作为白色污染之一的塑料袋难以降解，给生态环境造成了极大的危害。为了限制塑料袋的使用，世界各国都绞尽脑汁，使出各种招数，但真正有所成效的却屈指可数。面对成人甚至是政府都头疼的难题，巴厘岛的一对小姐妹挺身而出，还最终收到了成效。她们究竟是何方高手？又用了什么高招呢？一起走近下文来一探究竟吧！ 　　Welcome to Bali， Balinese sisters Melati and Isabel Wijsen chant1）， hands pressed together in the Balinese greeting gesture. Do you have any plastic bags to declare？ The sisters wont rest until all visitors are asked this question upon arrival at Balis Ngurah Rai International Airport. 　　Melati and Isabel dream of a day plastic bags will be forbidden in Bali. We want people to arrive on the Island of Gods and there will be no plastic bags， Melati says. Everyone who enters our home would know no plastic bags could be taken in or out. 　　The Bye Bye Plastic Bags Campaign 　　Balinese people traditionally only used organic materials leaving no waste behind. But today paradise is lost， the tourists keep complaining and the resort island is swamped2） with rubbish. Small restaurants serve soft drink in plastic bags to save people the trouble of returning empty bottles. Much of the rubbish in Bali is not collected. Some plastic is burnt，acrid3） fumes choking sweaty4） afternoons. Some is simply dumped in rivers. In Bali we generate 680 cubic meters of plastic a day. Thats about a 14-storey building， Isabel says in their TED talk which they gave last September. And when it comes to plastic bags less than five percent get recycled. 　　Three years ago Melati and Isabel， then aged 10 and 12， were inspired by a class on people such as Mahatma Gandhi andPrincess Diana5） at the Green School6） in Bali. We sat on the couch brainstorming―What can we do as kids on the island of Bali？ They knew rubbish was a big problem in Bali but it seemed too difficult to deal with. And then they learned that Rwanda had banned plastic bags in 2008. If one country does that， Bali should get started， Melati says. We dont have to wait until we are older to make a difference. 　　Melati and Isabel formed Bye Bye Plastic Bags with thei