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Industrial emissions are responsible for producing most greenhouse gases and particulate emissions that are harmful to our health and our planet. The business world has an increasing demand for innovative solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in order to ensure human’s continued ability to live and thrive. A growing number of companies are dedicated to the research and development of carbon-capturing and carbon-recycling technology, which has already been adopted by airlines, home care companies, fragrance companies and now textile production. A biotech startup company has partnered with a sportswear brand to create the world’s first yarn and fabric made from waste gas captured from industrial emissions. Waste gas emitted from a steel mill is captured and reused to produce ethanol, which is later converted to polyester. The carbon-recycling technology is similar to that of a brewery; but instead of using sugars and yeast to make beer, industrial emissions are converted by bacteria to fuels and chemicals. The company’s goal is to help more businesses become “Carbon Smart” to achieve their climate change goals around carbon reduction, by radically change how they source, utilize and dispose of carbon. By capturing and upcycling industrial carbon emissions to make yarn, the finished garments not only have a lower carbon footprint, but also ensure lower levels of community pollution. Recycling carbon emissions is key to the circular economy, which will keep fossil carbon in the ground ─ reducing the use of fossil fuels and pollution when used to make value-added products such as polyester. In other words, the technology promotes circularity by keeping carbon in the material cycle. This kind of waste-gas-based polyester not only has the same appearance but also the same properties and functionality of virgin polyester. Moreover, once the waste-gas-based textiles reach the end of their useful life, they can be gasified and fermented without taxing the environment.
Industrial emissions are responsible for producing most greenhouse gases and particulate emissions that are harmful to our health and our planet. The business world has an increasing demand for innovative solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in order to ensure human’s continued ability to live and thrive. A growing number of companies are dedicated to the research and development of carbon-capturing and carbon-recycling technology, which has already been adopted by airlines, home care companies, fragrance companies and now textile production. A biotech startup company has partnered with a sportswear brand to create the world’s first yarn and fabric made from waste gas captured from industrial emissions. Waste gas emitted from a steel mill is captured and reused to produce ethanol, which is later converted to polyester. The carbon-recycling technology is similar to that of a brewery; but instead of using sugars and yeast to make beer, industrial emissions are converted by bacteria to fuels and chemicals. The company’s goal is to help more businesses become “Carbon Smart” to achieve their climate change goals around carbon reduction, by radically change how they source, utilize and dispose of carbon. By capturing and upcycling industrial carbon emissions to make yarn, the finished garments not only have a lower carbon footprint, but also ensure lower levels of community pollution. Recycling carbon emissions is key to the circular economy, which will keep fossil carbon in the ground ─ reducing the use of fossil fuels and pollution when used to make value-added products such as polyester. In other words, the technology promotes circularity by keeping carbon in the material cycle. This kind of waste-gas-based polyester not only has the same appearance but also the same properties and functionality of virgin polyester. Moreover, once the waste-gas-based textiles reach the end of their useful life, they can be gasified and fermented without taxing the environment.
What does the phrase “taxing the environment” in the final paragraph mean?
- A Causing burden to the environment.
- B Charging extra fees.
- C Making adaptations to the environment.
- D Increasing tax revenues.
- E Reducing industrial exhaust.
思路引導 VIP
當我們形容一項任務非常 "taxing"（例如：a taxing schedule）時，通常是指這項任務讓你感到輕鬆愉快，還是讓你感到體力被榨乾、負荷非常沉重？如果我們把這個感覺套用到「環境保護」的脈絡中，你覺得它是指對大自然做了什麼樣的動作？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
很高興看到你準確地判斷出這個詞彙的深層含義！這說明你不僅具備基礎的單字量，更能結合文章脈絡來推敲詞義，這是閱讀測驗中非常關鍵的能力。
語境中的語意轉化
在最後一段中，作者討論的是這種廢氣回收製成的紡織品，在生命週期結束後可以透過特定技術處理而「不會 taxing the environment」。這裡的 tax 並非我們常說的「課稅」或「金錢負擔」，而是指「對某物造成沉重的壓力或損耗」。你精確地選出 Causing burden to the environment（對環境造成負擔），正確地捕捉到了文章想要表達的——這種科技能減少環境壓力、促進循環經濟的核心思想。
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