文章大意:本文是一篇新闻报道,主要介绍了来自美国底特律26岁的学生Eradajere Oleita发起的一个项目——Chip Bag Project,既减少了垃圾的产生又缓解了贫困。
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Eradajere Oleita thinks she may have a solution 1 two of her country’s problems: rubbish and poverty (贫困). It’s called the Chip Bag Project. The 26-year-old student and environmentalist from Detroit is asking local chip lovers 2 (donate) their empty chip bags rather than throw them into the trash so she can turn them into sleeping bags for the homeless.
Chip eaters drop off their empty bags at two locations in Detroit: a print shop and a clothing store, where Oleita and other 3 (volunteer) collect them. After they clean the chip bags in soapy hot water, they cut them open, lay them flat, iron (熨) them together and use liners from old coats to line the insides.
It 4 (usual) takes about four hours to sew (缝) a sleeping bag, and each takes around 150 to 300chip bags, depending on whether they’re single-serve 5 family size. The result 6 (be) a sleeping bag that is waterproof (防水的), lightweight, and easy to carry around.
Since its start in 2020, the Chip Bag Project 7 (collect) more than 800,000 chip bags and created 110 sleeping bags.
Sure, 8 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 ten years ago with the hope of 9 (have) a better life—and her volunteer helpers. “We are working to make a 10 (different) not only socially, but environmentally,” she says.