Plastic food and drink packaging ‘world’s most common coastal litter’
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Global Study Reveals Plastic Packaging as the Most Prevalent Form of Coastal Litter Worldwide
全球研究顯示塑膠包裝是全世界沿岸垃圾最普遍的形式
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A comprehensive global study has confirmed that plastic food and drink packaging constitutes the single most pervasive category of coastal litter on Earth.
一項全面的全球研究已證實，塑膠食品與飲料包裝構成了地球上沿海垃圾中最普遍的單一類別。
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Researchers analysed data drawn from over 5,300 shoreline surveys spanning 94 countries, making this the most extensive investigation of its kind ever undertaken.
研究人員分析了來自 94 個國家、涵蓋超過 5,300 份海岸線調查的數據，使這項調查成為同類研究中迄今為止規模最廣泛的一次。
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The findings, published in the journal One Earth, revealed that plastic wrappers, bottles, lids, and caps appeared in the coastal debris of 93% of nations examined.
這項發表於《One Earth》期刊的研究結果顯示，在受調查的 93% 國家的海岸廢棄物中，都出現了塑膠包裝紙、瓶子、蓋子和瓶蓋。
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Richard Thompson, founder of the University of Plymouth's international marine litter research unit, emphasised that the dominant items were ordinary, everyday products.
普利茅斯大學國際海洋垃圾研究單位的創始人理查德·湯普森強調，佔主導地位的物品是普通的日常用品。
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He acknowledged that the prevalence of single-use plastics had not come as a surprise, yet the sheer consistency with which these items surfaced across all seven continents had taken him aback.
理查德·湯普森承認，一次性塑料製品的普遍存在並不令人意外，然而，這些物品在所有七大洲出現的極高一致性卻讓他感到吃驚。
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No other category of environmental pollution along coastlines proved as widespread as plastic packaging.
沒有其他類別的沿岸環境污染被證明像塑膠包裝那樣分佈廣泛。
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The researchers synthesised information from 355 existing studies, filtering for surveys that employed comparable methodologies and categorised debris by type.
研究人員綜合了來自 355 項現有研究的資訊，篩選出採用可比方法並按類型對碎片進行分類的調查。
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Their confidence in the accuracy of each country's data depended on the volume and quality of available studies.
他們對各國數據準確性的信心，取決於現有研究的數量與品質。
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By extrapolating from the 94 countries with direct data, the team generated estimates for an additional 18 nations, thereby broadening the scope of their analysis considerably.
透過對 94 個擁有直接數據的國家進行推斷，該團隊為另外 18 個國家生成了估計值，從而顯著擴大了其分析範圍。
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The study arrives at a critical juncture, as United Nations negotiations aimed at establishing a binding global treaty on environmental pollution from plastics have reportedly stalled.
這項研究發表於關鍵時刻，因為聯合國旨在建立一項關於塑料環境污染且具約束力的全球條約談判，據報導已陷入停滯。
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Advocates of sustainable packaging argue that without decisive UN policy intervention, voluntary measures alone will prove insufficient to curb the crisis.
永續包裝的倡導者主張，若沒有聯合國果斷的政策干預，單憑自願性措施將被證明不足以遏制這場危機。
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Were governments to mandate stricter regulations on single-use plastic packaging, the volume of coastal litter could decline substantially within a decade.
若各國政府強制執行更嚴格的一次性塑膠包裝法規，沿海垃圾量可能會在十年內大幅下降。
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Plastic bags, by comparison, appeared in the data from only 39% of countries, underscoring the outsized role that food-related packaging plays in this global predicament.
相比之下，塑膠袋僅出現在 39% 國家的數據中，這凸顯了與食物相關的包裝在這一全球困境中所扮演的極大角色。