单项选择题
What do you do with your empty cans and bottles There are two choices, throwing them away or recycling them. Throwing away a metal beverage (饮料) container wastes as much energy as filling a can with gasoline and pouring half out. Besides wasting energy, throwing away bottles and cans causes pollution, increases the volume of solid waste, and uses up natural resources. To control these problems, only nine states have adopted bottle laws. The United States government should require every state to have a bottle law or impose (制定) a national bottle law.
To understand how a bottle law can help, you must know how it works. When consumers buy canned or bottled beverages at a store, they pay deposits. This deposit can range from twenty to fifty cents per bottle or can. In order to get this deposit back, the bottles and cans must be returned to supermarkets after they are emptied. The supermarkets then return the bottles and cans to their manufacturers for either reusing or recycling.
Bottle laws are currently effective in Oregon, Vermont, Maine, Michigan, Iowa, Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, and New York. These laws work largely because the general public supports them. A recent poll (民意测验) of Americans revealed that 73 percent support bottle laws. This support undoubtedly results from people’s concern about pollution and our planet’s limited resources.
A. the nine states support it
B. the consumers pay deposits
C. the manufacturers recycle the empty containers
D. the consumers, supermarkets and manufacturers make a joint effort