Started to describe about one of backstories per day from January 26th in 2020.
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Today's topic:One of Backstories was described on Sunday July 05th, 2020.
-Saying sayonara to single-use plastic bottles-
⇒https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/backstories/1165/
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the city’s sprawling private subway system 市内の広大な市営地下鉄システム
desirable 形容詞:望ましい
whopping 形容詞:大きな
ripe 形容詞:熟した
described between 13:57 and 19:06(05h09m)
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Question:Why would Single-use plastic bottles disappear from Japan?
According to this article,It is due to free water refilling stations are increasing in Japan.the move is aimed at reducing plastic bottles.
In fact,The entrepreneurs have recently been trying to get businesses to join the platform,arguing that it would increase foot traffic to their stores and improve brand image.
Currently,the two have registered more than 6,500 water fountains and bottle refill stations across Japan to their app.This includes over 470 cafes, stores, and hotels.
Furthermore,MUJI as a Japanese retailers is also stopping the sales and will instead install bottle refill stations at over one hundred outlets across the country.These can be available to refill a reusable bottle by anyone,not just customers.It plants to install refill stations at 400 stores nationwide.
Meanwhile,plastic bottles in the 80s were introduced in Japan.The number of plastic bottles were 25.2 billion in fiscal 2018.
It marked a 6.9% increase from the year before and amounts to about 200 bottles per person.
Conversely,it has meant a steady decline in the use of water fountains.
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-----You know why RAINER MARIA RILKE said like that "Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing so little to be reached as with criticism. Only love can grasp and hold and be just toward them."-----https://www.goalcast.com/2020/05/20/art-quotes/