Eradajere Oleita thinks she may have a partial solution to two of our country’s persistent problems: garbage and poverty. It’s called the Chip Bag Project. The 26-year-old student and environmentalist from Detroit is asking a favor of local snack lovers: Rather than toss your empty chip bags into the trash, donate them so she can turn them into sleeping bags for the homeless.

Chip caters drop off their empty bags from Doritos, Lay’s, and other favorites at two locations in Detroit: a print shop and a clothing store, where Oleita and her volunteer helpers collect them. After they sanitize (消毒) the chip bags in soapy hot water, they slice them open, lay them flat, and iron them together. They use padding and liners from old coats to line the insides.

It takes about four hours to sew a sleeping bag, and each takes around 150 to 300 chip bags, depending on whether they’re single-serve or family size. The result is a sleeping bag that is “waterproof, lightweight, and easy to carry around,” Oleita told the Detroit News. Since its start in 2020, the Chip Bag Project has collected more than 800,000 chip bags and, as of last December, created 110 sleeping bags.

Sure, it would be simpler to raise the money to buy new sleeping bags. But that’s only half the goal for Oleita — whose family moved to the United States from Nigeria a decade ago with the hope of attaining a better life — and her fellow volunteers. “We are devoted to making an impact not only socially, but environmentally,” she said.

And, of course, there’s the symbolism of recycling bags that would otherwise land in the trash and using them to help the homeless. It’s a powerful reminder that environmental injustice and poverty often go hand in hand. As Oleita said, “I think it’s time to show connections between all of these issues.”

【小题1】What is the main idea of paragraph 2?

A．How they make the sleeping bags.	B．Why they sanitize the chip bags.
C．Where they collect the chip bags.	D．What they use to line the insides.

【小题2】What do the numbers in paragraph 3 show?

A．The new sleeping bags have many benefits.

B．A lot of effort is put into making the sleeping bags.

C．People consume a large quantity of chips every day.

D．People are aware of the importance of environmental protection.

【小题3】Why do the volunteers make rather than simply buy sleeping bags?

A．They wish they could earn better life.

B．They think it is difficult to raise a lot of money.

C．They aim to help the homeless by recycling waste.

D．They want to find a simpler way to help the homeless.

【小题4】What can we infer from the passage?

A．Recycling chip bags can remove poverty.

B．The new sleeping bags have been put into wide use.

C．Few chip bags will end up in the trash in the country.

D．Environmental injustice and poverty are usually closely connected.