尽管巴黎的人口在减少,但城市的垃圾在半个世纪的时间里却增长了三倍。1930年,每天的垃圾为一千吨;而1980年,竟高达三千吨。然而,比垃圾增长更令人担忧的问题是:今天,无论什么东西都有包装,都可以任意扔在大街上。面对这一灰色浪潮,巴黎市府在苦苦思索着对策。他们要付出什么样的代价呢?去年,马赛市在清扫垃圾上花费了四亿七千六百万法郎;里昂花了四亿;而巴黎则花费了十三亿。并且,这一费用还在上升,巴黎今年的“清洁”预算是十六亿法郎。 Although the population of Paris is declining, the amount of rubbish in the cities has tripled in half a century. In 1930, the daily waste was 1,000 tons; in 1980, it was as high as 3,000 tons. However, a more worrying issue than the rubbish growth is that today, no matter what the packaging, you can throw it on the street. Faced with this gray wave, the Paris Metropolitan Government is struggling to think about countermeasures. What price would they pay? In the past year, Marseille spent a total of 476 million francs in cleaning rubbish, 400 million in Lyon, and 1.3 billion in Paris. And the cost is still on the rise, with a “clean” budget of 1.6 billion francs in Paris this year.