????雖然Repurposed Materials這類(lèi)企業(yè)很難擴(kuò)大規(guī)模，但環(huán)保專(zhuān)家聲稱(chēng)，市場(chǎng)亟需更多類(lèi)似的中間商。（這家公司目前的年收入約為100萬(wàn)美元，眼下正準(zhǔn)備向芝加哥擴(kuò)展。）“所謂3R理念是減少總量(reduce)，再利用( reuse)和回收( recycle)，”新墨西哥州回收委員會(huì)(New Mexico Recycling Commission)執(zhí)行董事英格力士?伯德說(shuō)。“但我們常常忘了減少和再利用這兩個(gè)方面。這里面蘊(yùn)含著莫大的善意。”

????這個(gè)過(guò)程不僅對(duì)買(mǎi)家和環(huán)境有好處，通常還能給制造商幫上忙，特別是，如果它們?cè)疽ㄥX(qián)移除廢棄物的話。位于伊利諾伊州南埃爾金市的塑料泳池蓋生產(chǎn)商雷納覆蓋系統(tǒng)(Rayner Covering Systems)讓客戶(hù)寄回撕開(kāi)的或無(wú)法使用的蓋子，大樓后面的一塊地已經(jīng)變成了公司營(yíng)運(yùn)經(jīng)理朱迪?萬(wàn)瓦科特所稱(chēng)的“蓋子墓地”。幾乎每隔一段時(shí)間，她就得雇一位搬運(yùn)工把一卡車(chē)蓋子運(yùn)往垃圾填埋場(chǎng)。

????While it's hard to scale a business like Repurposed Materials, environmental experts see a crying need for more such middlemen. (The company, with about $1 million in revenues, is expanding to Chicago.) "The three Rs are reduce, reuse, and recycle," says English Bird, executive director of the New Mexico Recycling Commission. "But we often forget the reduce, reuse part. It's goodwill on a big scale."

????Not only is the process good for the buyer and the environment; it's often helpful to manufacturers, too, especially if they would otherwise have to pay to remove their junk. Over at Rayner Covering Systems, a South Elgin, Ill.-based manufacturer of plastic pool covers that lets customers send back ripped or unusable covers, a lot behind the building had become what operations manager Judy VanVactor called "the cover graveyard." Every so often, she'd pay a hauler to put a truckload of them into a landfill.

????隨后，她聯(lián)系了Repurposed Materials公司。后者挑選的蓋子裝滿了兩個(gè)半掛車(chē)——她估計(jì)至少有1,000個(gè)蓋子。今天，這些蓋子正在被用來(lái)為吃草的山羊以及苗圃遮擋炎炎夏日，而阿爾伯克基動(dòng)物園(Albuquerque Zoo)則使用它們來(lái)收集禿鷲展的糞便?！拔沂∠铝藘晒P費(fèi)用，”萬(wàn)瓦科特說(shuō)。“一是全部扔掉這些蓋子需要支付的勞務(wù)費(fèi)，二是把這些蓋子拖走的成本。另外，我們也不用占垃圾填埋場(chǎng)的地方了?！庇腥诵枰?00平方英尺（約合56平方米）的二手合成草皮嗎？你知道該上哪兒去找。（財(cái)富中文網(wǎng)）

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????Then she connected with Repurposed Materials, which picked up two semi loads of covers -- probably at least 1,000 of them, she estimates. Today, those covers are being used to provide shade for goats grazing in the hot summer sun, plant nurseries, and, at the Albuquerque Zoo, catch poop under the vulture exhibit. "I just saved two things," VanVactor says, "paying for the labor to get it all thrown away and the cost of hauling it off. Plus we're not filling up a landfill." Anyone need 600 square feet of used synthetic turf? You know where to go.