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These volunteer divers are snorkel fishing in Manly Cove in Sydney, Australia.
这些潜水志愿者正在澳大利亚曼丽湾浮潜钓鱼。
But they're not looking for fish. They're diving for plastic, all kinds of plastic, but mainly straws.
但他们没有去寻找鱼，而是在寻找塑料，各种塑料，主要是吸管。
It's part of a volunteer effort to clean the cove, called Operation Straw.
这是清理海湾的志愿活动的一部分，名为“吸管运动”。
So when we started this project, we actually just genuinely wanted to count how many straws and other plastic items we were finding in the ocean.
当我们开始该项目时，我们真心想数一下在海洋中发现的吸管和塑料产品的数量。
So I was really surprised at how many people wanted to join in and I think it's because
所以当看到有许多人加入时，我感到很惊讶，因为我认为
it's such a feel good activity to be able to get in and do something about the problems facing the world.
这是一个会让你感到愉悦的事情，你可以加入进来，来为世界面临的问题做一些事情。
Harriet Spark founded Operation Straw when she came across this octopus in the cove clutching plastic straws.
斯帕克建立“吸管运动”的原因是，她在海岸偶遇了一只被塑料吸管缠绕的章鱼。
We actually once found an octopus, so there's lots of octopus in this bay, it's full of beautiful marine life
我们之前发现了一个章鱼，这里里面有许多章鱼，里面有很多美丽的海洋生物，
and we found an octopus holding plastic straws in its tentacles and we actually had to pull them out,
我们发现这只章鱼的触角上有很多吸管，我们要将它们拔出来，
so that was a bit of a depressing tug of war. The group volunteers their Saturdays to dive in the cove and pick up trash.
所以这是一个让人郁闷的拔河大战，志愿团队在周六会在海湾潜水，收集垃圾。
I found 23 today, which is not my record. My record is up in the sixties, but it was a pretty good hit.
我今天发现了23个，这不是我的记录，我的记录是60多个，但也不错了。
The effort has inspired 40 local businesses to do their part by ending their use of plastic straws.
该努力也激发了40家当地的商铺来停止使用塑料吸管。
Hugos is situated down here on the water and Operation Straw is in effect and they're collecting straws
雨果餐厅坐落在海边，“吸管运动”一直在行动，他们一直在收集吸管，
all the time down here and we know that we're one of the restaurants not supplying those straws.
我们知道我们是一家不提供吸管的餐厅之一。
During Operation Straw's initial summer of work in 2018, the team pulled over 2000 straws out of Manly Cove.
在“吸管运动”2018年夏天的第一次行动中，团队在这个海湾收集了2000多个吸管。
To put that in perspective, Australians use 2.9 billion straws a year.
换个方式说，澳大利亚每年使用29亿个吸管。
Oh, you can see the change. There's far fewer plastic straws there now,
你可以看到改变，如今塑料吸管少多了，
bait bags, plastic food packaging, everything else just as bad. But it shows that you can make a difference by implementing change.
还有饵袋，塑料食品包装，等等也一样糟糕，但这证明可以通过改变来创造不同。
Every little bit helps. Kevin Enochs VOA News
一点点努力都有帮助，凯文·恩尼克斯，VOA新闻
