Google pledges to use recycled materials for consumer devices谷歌承诺将再生材料用于消费设备Alphabet Inc’s Google on Monday announced that it would neutralize carbon emissions from delivering consumer hardware by next year and include recycled plastic in each of its products by 2022.

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旗下谷歌周一宣布，它将在明年之前消除交付消费硬件所产生的碳排放，并在2022年之前将再生塑料纳入其每一种产品中。

The new commitments step up the competition among tech companies aiming to show consumers and governments that they are curbing the environmental toll from their widening arrays of gadgets.

这些新承诺加剧了科技公司之间的竞争，旨在向消费者和政府表明，它们正在遏制不断扩大的电子产品种类对环境造成的影响。

Anna Meegan, head of sustainability for Google’s devices and services unit, said in an interview that the company’s transport-related carbon emissions per unit fell 40 percent last year compared to 2017 by relying more on ships instead of planes to move phones, speakers, laptops and other gadgets from factories to customers across the world.

谷歌设备和服务部门的可持续发展主管Anna Meegan在接受采访时说，与2017年相比，谷歌的单位运输碳排放量去年下降了40%，2017年从工厂到世界各地的客户，更多地依靠船只而非移动电话、扬声器、笔记本电脑和其他产品。

The company will offset remaining emissions by purchasing carbon credits, Meegan said.

Meegan表示，该公司将通过购买碳排放额度来抵消剩余的排放。

Three out of nine Google products for which the company has detailed disclosures online contain recycled plastic, ranging from 20 percent to 42 percent in the casings for its Google Home speakers and Chromecast streaming dongles.

该公司在网上详细披露的九款谷歌产品中，有三款含有可回收塑料，其谷歌家用扬声器和Chromecast流媒体转接器外壳的塑料含量从20%到42%不等。

In a blog post, Google committed to introducing some recycled plastic to 100 percent of products by 2022.

在一篇博文中，谷歌承诺到2022年将一些再生塑料100%应用到产品中。

Meegan acknowledged that Google’s 3-year-old hardware business trails far larger hardware rival Apple Inc in some sustainability efforts.

Meegan承认，谷歌硬件业务在一些可持续发展方面已有3年落后于规模大得多的竞争对手苹果公司。

Apple, which in 2017 committed to one day” only using recycled and renewable materials, has at least 50 percent recycled plastic in some parts of several products, recycled tin in at least 11 products and recycled aluminum in at least two.

苹果公司在2017年承诺有一天”只使用可回收和可再生材料，在一些产品的某些部分至少有50%的可回收塑料，在至少11种产品中有可回收锡，在至少2种产品中有可回收铝。

But sustainability standards are now a part of Google’s hardware planning, Meegan said.

Devices cannot clear the second checkpoint in the company’s design process unless they show that sustainable packaging and materials and ease of repair have been considered.

但米根说，可持续发展标准现在已经成为谷歌硬件计划的一部分。

但是如果不能证明可持续的包装和材料以及维修的便利性，该设备还是无法通过公司设计过程中的第二个关卡。

We are fundamentally looking to build sustainability into everything we do,” she said.

It’s going to take us time to demonstrate progress.

”她说:我们从根本上希望把可持续性纳入我们所做的一切。

”我们需要时间来向公众展示我们的成就。

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