Weird Butterfly Ceremony

課文：

Possible e-waste solutions

Owners can prolong the life of their gadgets by upgrading less frequently and by repairing the devices instead of replacing them. Owners might also choose to sell their old gadgets to a company like Gazelle that prepares them for resale overseas. That way, owners can earn money while preventing these devices from ending up in a garbage dump. Similarly, owners could send their used electronics to Attero, a company that specializes in extracting the valuable metals in used gadgets.

prolong：延長、拉長
instead of：代替
replace：取代
overseas：在海外的、在國外的
prevent：防止

Some waste-management experts are promoting green chemistry. Green chemistry attempts to stop e-waste by designing safer chemicals to replace the hazardous ones currently used in making electronic products. And green chemistry aims to design products that degrade easily, as opposed to plastic ones that take hundreds of years to break down.

promote：發起、推行
chemistry：化學
attempt：試圖
chemical：化學上的（物質）
hazardous：有毒的
aim：致力
degrade：分解、降低（品質）
as opposed to：與…對比
break down：故障、分解

Another creative solution to the e-waste problem has been found in Togo, West Africa, where members of WoeLab built a 3-D printer from scraps of e-waste. And in Ghana, a company called FairPhone is making phones using recycled materials. While such creative efforts won’t completely solve the e-waste problem, they do offer a ray of hope.

scrap：碎片、一丁點
a ray of hope：一線希望

文法：
S aims to … as opposed to …（目標是…有別於…相反）

特別補充：
realist：現實主義者
purist：純粹（純正）主義者