Damon Carson must have one of the most interesting inboxes in the world. On any given day, in his office in Denver in the western US state of Colorado, he will field numerous inquiries from people looking to unload things. We’re not talking about someone trying to dispense with an old refrigerator or some out-of-fashion clothing, but companies.

Picture large companies looking to unload massive amounts of waste that would otherwise go to the landfill.

For example, Carson got a request from a battery company to deal with 22 tonnes of barium sulfate (硫酸钡) used in lead-acid batteries. A load of plastic garbage cans from a discount store were just waiting for him to repurpose them. And a recreation company wanted to know if Carson was interested in 360 kilograms of blue ropes, which they no longer needed to make the handles on coolers.

“They don’t want to just throw the waste away,” he explains. “Nor should they. Because it has value.” He is a matchmaker of the never-ending waste stream, trying not to pair people with people, but things with people. For nearly a decade, his company, Repurposed Materials, has been involved in this business. He’s not looking to recycle the things he gets-breaking them down to make something new-but rather finding a second life for cast-off goods in their original forms.

Once working in construction, Carson was familiar with an almost everyday phenomenon. “You’d open up one of these big construction dumpsters (大垃圾桶) and things would start falling out,” he says. He would find perfectly good windows still covered with plastic from the factory. “You can’t wrap your mind around how wasteful America is until you run a waste company,” he says. He began thinking about creating a sort of secondhand hardware store that would sell unwanted materials and keep them out of the waste stream. Then, in 2010, a business was born.

【小题1】What does the underlined phrase “dispense with” in the first paragraph mean?

A．Make use of.	B．Look forward to.
C．Get rid of.	D．Come back to.

【小题2】Why are some examples mentioned in paragraph 3?

A．To prove Carson’s tough work.	B．To indicate Carson’s “big business”.
C．To appeal for waste management.	D．To explain the source of the material.

【小题3】How does Carson deal with the waste?

A．By creating something new.	B．By selling them to companies.
C．By recycling them to save energy.	D．By getting others to use them.

【小题4】What inspired Carson to set up his company?

A．His disappointment at America.	B．His love for secondhand hardware.
C．His exposure to too much waste.	D．His experience in a waste company.