Damon Carson calls himself a matchmaker (媒人) of the never-ending waste of American society, trying not to pair people with people, but things with people.
In the late 1990s, Carson was on break from business school in Vail, Colorado, when he discovered the vast world of waste. He began thinking about creating a secondhand store that would sell old materials and keep them out of being wasted. As a result, in 2010, his company, Repurposed Materials appeared.
For nearly ten years, his company, Repurposed Materials, has not been looking to recycle the waste he gets — breaking it down to make something new — but rather finding new homes for thrown-away goods in their original forms.
Carson, a husband and father of three adult children, is far from wasteful. Frugal is how he describes himself. The clothes he’s wearing all came from a charity shop; his truck was bought with 290, 000 kilometers driven.
“Why break something down, why melt something down, if it still has value?” he asks. An old oil-field pipe might be melted down and turned into a car bumper, but it still takes an amount of power to finish the complete change. Why not leave it as a steel pipe? Why not turn it into a fence post on a farm? The only cost is transport.
American industrial facilities create and throw about 7.6 billion tons of unwanted industrial materials every year. For the moment, Carson’s unique business finds new lives for millions of kilograms of industrial waste every year.
【小题1】What is paragraph two mainly about?| A．Carson’s school lessons. |
| B．Carson’s journey to Colorado. |
| C．The start of Carson’s business. |
| D．The serious waste of materials. |
| A．Marketing wastes to people in need. |
| B．Breaking down the wasted goods. |
| C．Manufacturing industrial products. |
| D．Recycling the thrown-away stuffs. |
| A．Economical. | B．Poetic. | C．Tough. | D．Risky. |
| A．Well began, half done. |
| B．Innovative thinking counts. |
| C．One is never too old to learn. |
| D．Hard work will pay back. |
