I hate driving down the highway, watching _____ of smoke from power plants rise into the clear sky, seeing rubbish _____ the streets in my neighborhood, catching my friends throwing away their plastic bottles _____ recycling. In fact, I am _____ by the slightest piece of paper on the surface of the pond next to my house.

At times, my friends have questioned my intentions: why I want the _____ of our globe, the purity of our water，the _____ beauty of our plains. I try to answer them with a clear answer, yet at times I don' t know how to _____; seeing rubbish on the floor, smoke____ the sky like a thick blanket feels so unnatural for me. One Saturday night, for example, when I was walking back home, I _____ a pile of beer bottles at the entrance of the woods near my neighborhood. A group of deer stepped into the _____ but didn’t stay long --they were _____ by the strong smell of rubbish. I looked at the tall trees first and then at the setting sun. The rubbish seemed like something _____ the beauty of nature. I decided to clean up the pile. I went back home and found a large plastic garbage bag. I ran into the grass and tried to _____ all the bottles into the single bag. Finally I had to go back home to get another bag. Dragging the waste behind me on my way to the community dump, I thought, I want to help the environment because I want to own a _____ globe. I hate litter and _____ because that’s just who I am—sort of an environmental freak (着迷的人).

Isabella believes she may have cracked a solution to two tough challenges in her country. Her initiative, the Chip Bag Project, aims to _________ garbage and poverty at the same time. As a student and _________, she is asking local snack lovers a favor: rather than throw empty chip bags _________ into the trash, donate them! Then she can turn them into free sleeping bags for the homeless.

Chip eaters drop off their empty bags at two _________: a print shop and a clothing store, where Isabella and her volunteer helpers collect them. After they soak the chip bags in hot water, they slice them open, lay them on the ground, and _________ them flat. Afterwards, they use fillings to _________ the insides.

It takes about four hours to _________ a sleeping bag, and each weighs no more than 1.5 kilograms, depending on whether they are based on single use or family _________. And there you have it, a sleeping bag that is “waterproof and _________” Isabella told the News.

Since its start in 2020, the Chip Bag Project has __________ more than 800,000 chip bags.

While it would be __________ to raise money to buy new sleeping bags, Isabella’s mission extends beyond. “We are dedicated to making an impact not only __________ but environmentally,” she says.

It’s vital to keep in mind the value of repurposing bags that might __________ end up in the trash. This campaign serves as a powerful __________that environmental issues and poverty often go hand in hand. As Isabella expressed to localnews. com, “It’s time to recognize the __________ among these issues and make a big difference to our world.”

It was a turtle that changed Victoria Cairns, a headteacher from Derbyshire. She was ________ in Bali underwater when she saw one of the island’s famous ________ . It approached towards her in the crystal clear water, and she was ________ at first — until she saw the plastic bag in its mouth. She just thought the human was having a destroying ________ on the environment.

She set up anti-litter social media account to ________ awareness of the damage caused by ________ pollution. She regularly picks litter around her neighborhood. “She’s done amazing work keeping the area clean, tidy and beautiful,” says her friend.

Cairns keeps a litter picker in her car, and will frequently ________ on the way back from work to clean something up. When running, Cairns carries a portable litter picker in her backpack, and ________ rubbish on her cool-down walk.

“Some people don’t ________ things. There’s no value in a plastic bag, so they ________ it away, not into the bin but on the earth somewhere. It means they are doing it when people aren’t ________ , as they know it’s unacceptable.”

When she collects plastic bottles and carrier bags, it feels like a small act of care: this bag will not end up ________ a turtle’s mouth. It is a(an) ________ small act in the scheme of things, but it’s something.

Cairns makes a   ________ to her surroundings. She has been litter picking in the ________ near her house. “It’s so beautiful. You get a different perspective being on the water.” she says.