So what does that mean?

这意味着什么呢
The food packaging industry is increasingly of interest to me

我对食品包装行业的兴趣越来越浓
in my own research.

在我自己的研究中
So I'll share with you several ideas

因此我会和你们分享不少想法
about how plastics make their way into your life.

关于塑料制品如何进入你们生活的
Right now, the synthetic chemical industry is dominated

目前合成化工产业被塑料工业支配着
by the plastics industry; it constitutes seventy percent

塑料工业构成了美国
of the synthetic chemical industry in the United States.

合成化工产业中的百分之七十
And each year, one hundred billion pounds of chemicals

同时每年一千亿磅化工产品
are produced and released to the environment.

被制造出来并释放进入环境中
And among all plastics, among those one hundred billion pounds,

在所有塑料制品中在一千亿磅之中
only five percent are recyclable.

只有百分之五是可循环的