LeonoraBuenviaje has been making women’s clothes out of waste materials, usually-组卷网

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Leonora Buenviaje has been making women’s clothes out of waste materials, usually dresses. She says wearing clothes made from waste materials can be both economical and look good.

Buenviaje is 51-years-old and from Cainta in the Philippines. To make her dresses, she uses a foot-operated sewing machine (缝纫机) to join together the waste materials. These include recycled newspapers, plastic wrapping and rice sacks. She creates new and beautiful clothes women can wear. They are sometimes completed with a piece called a headdress that goes on top of the head.

“The bubble wrap (气泡包装) from delivery packages is nice looking and make for a good design, especially the black and white wraps,” she said. Bubble wrap is a plastic product that is used to protect goods that are being delivered. She said white bubble wraps was good for making wedding dresses. The dresses sell for between $30 to $50. They are used for everything from coming-of-age parties for a woman’s 18th birthday, called debuts (首秀), to weddings.

In Asia, there is plenty of waste material for Buenviaje to work with: about 80 percent of the world ocean plastic is estimated to come from Asian rivers. A 2021 report by Oxford University’s online publication, Our World in Data, found that the Philippines is responsible for one third of Asia’s ocean plastic pollution.

“It’s important to recycle or utilize waste materials so we can help our earths,” said Lalaine Alcalde, who buys clothes from Buenviaje. Buenviaje said the recycled materials used for each dress depend on what her buyers are looking for.

【小题1】What can we learn about Buenviaje from paragraph 2?

A．She likes wearing beautiful clothes.	B．She is considerate and responsible.
C．She made headdress from newspapers.	D．She is creative and positive.

【小题2】What are Buenviaje’s dresses designed for?