1 . British chip maker Walkers is being flooded with mail deliveries of its own packaging. An online petition (请愿) with more than 312,000 signatures so far encourages those who signed to mail their empty chip plastic bags to Walkers as an act of protest against the bags’ non-recyclable design.

As petition organizer Geraint Ashcroft explained, the majority of chip packets, made from plastic coated with metal, are not recyclable and have been found fully undamaged up to 33 years after consumption. The UK alone consumes 6 billion bags of chips a year, and Walkers turns out 11 million bags daily. Ashcroft wrote, “At today’s consumption rate in 33 years’ time, there will be 200 billion packets either sent to landfill or polluting our oceans. Many will be eaten by fish or birds, leading to a slow death.”

Mailing the bags to Walkers is a way to hold the company accountable for its packaging and to pressure it to come up with a better design. But it is controversial. Because the Royal Mail postal service isn’t happy about the sudden in flow of packages, asking people calm down to help with ease of delivery. Critics on Twitter also question the logic of buying a product in order to protest against its producer and suggest that giving up chips altogether would improve one’s health as well as the environment.

Walkers issued a statement on Wednesday, saying it will make its packaging plastic-free by 2025. “We have received some returned packets and recognized the efforts being made to bring the issue of packaging waste to our attention. The returned packets will be used in our research as we work towards our commitment of improving the recyclability of our packaging.”

1. Why do people mail their empty chip bags to Walkers?

A．To oppose Walkers’ plastic packaging.

B．To exchange them for some new chips.

C．To make Walkers use them once more.

D．To appeal to people for not using the bags.

2. What does the second paragraph mainly show?

A．The production of plastic bags.

B．The cause of animals’ death.

C．The potential harm of chip bags.

D．The opinion of Geraint Ashcroft.

3. What is the underlined word “accountable” in paragraph 3 probably mean?

A．Explainable.

B．Responsible.

C．Significant.

D．Anxious.

4. How does Walkers react to the campaign?

A．Doubtfully.

B．Indifferently.

C．Positively.

D．Cautiously.