第3138期:NYC Plastic Collectibles Shop

In the very heart of Manhattan, in the formerly hectic Times Square, New York city gave the best spot in town to plastic. 在曼哈顿的正中心，在昔日熙熙攘攘的时代广场，纽约市将城中最优越的位置让给了塑料。

There's tens of thousands of disposable plastic items in the grocery store that I spent a couple years collecting from various trash cans around New York city. 杂货店有成千上万件一次性塑料制品，这些是我花了几年时间从纽约市各处的垃圾桶里收集来的。

Every item in this pop-up grocery store installation is made of plastic bags. 这家快闪杂货店装置中的每一件物品都是用塑料袋制成的。

This one took a while, but it was very fun to like figure out how to do all the like little, like frosting effects all the way around. You can touch it, yeah, for sure. 这一件花了不少时间，但琢磨出如何做出那些小小的、像糖霜一样的装饰效果，整个过程非常有趣。你可以摸摸它。

Turning something no one else wants into art is a time-honored tradition. 将无人想要的东西变成艺术是一项历史悠久的传统。

So designer and artist Robin Frohardt chose to work with one thing New York city has been trying to get rid of since march. 设计师兼艺术家罗宾·弗罗哈特选择使用纽约市自三月以来一直试图清除的一种东西进行创作。

The city was said to impose a plastic bag ban in March 2020, but the pandemic slowed things down. 据说该市原定于2020年3月实施禁塑令，但疫情减缓了事情的发展。

Before the plastic bag ban, New Yorkers were using over 20 billion plastic bags a year. 在禁塑令之前，纽约人每年使用超过两百亿个塑料袋。

85 percent of those bags ended up in city dumping grounds and in the ocean. 那些袋子中有85%最终被扔到了城市垃圾场和海洋里。

New York is a very large city that produces a lot of waste and anything, that we can do to reduce that would be a good thing. 纽约是一个非常大的城市，会产生大量垃圾，我们能做的任何减少垃圾的事情都是有益的。

I bring my own bag only when I remember, other than that, it's hard to. 我只有在记得的时候才会自带购物袋，除此之外，很难做到。

But while the rest of the city is getting rid of its bags, the plastic store is one place in New York city where plastic bags are indispensable. 但在纽约市其他地方都在逐步淘汰塑料袋时，这家塑料制品店却是塑料袋不可或缺的地方。