귀트영 20101230 뉴스 스크립트

Green Packaging Replaces Petroleum-Based Foam

Buying a product these days often means you are getting more than you bargained for.
Unwrapping your latest purchase can leave the room strewn with the cardboard, plastic and packing foam waste that kept product protected until it reached the safety of your home.
After being thrown away, petroleum-based packing foam can survive for thousands of years in landfills.
This wasteful practice may soon change, however, thanks to a new type of packing material that can be absorbed back into nature when its job is done.
Eben Bayer is the CEO and cofounder of Ecovative Design, which manufactures Ecocradle, a natural packing material.
"We source agricultural waste from around the world. So we have a regionalized or localized manufacturing process. If you're in the United States in the South you might use rice husks. In upstate New York where we're based we use things like buckwheat husks."
Bayer explains that agricultural waste products become the main body of the packing material, which is held together by mushroom roots.
"We wet and cook the seed husks and put them in a mold. And then over five days, indoors, in the dark, they self-assemble and grow into packaging parts."
This low-energy process will free Ecovative Design from the traditional large scale manufacturing operations required by most packing companies.
Instead, it hopes to locate its plants as close as possible to both its agricultural suppliers and its end-users.

[ 원문 : http://www.voanews.com/english/news/environment/Green-Packaging-Replaces-Petroleum-based-Foam-100885619.html ]

Words and sentence on air
* bargain for : 예상보다 뭔가(일 등) 많은(부정적인 상황)
   I got more than I bargain for : 내가 예상했던 것 보다 많이 가졌다.
* be strewn with : 정신없이 흐트러져있는
* landfill : 쓰레기매립지
* absorb : 흡수하다. =soak up
* buckwheat husks : 메밀껍질

* thanks to : ~덕분에
* source : 공급받다. 원료로 사용하다.
* where we're based : 본사가 있는 곳
* in a mold : 'a'를 반드시 넣어야만 'mold'가 '주물'이라는 뜻을 갖게 된다.
                    'a'없이 쓰게 되면, '성질, 성격'이란 뜻이 된다.
* grow into : 만들어지다. 완성되다.