Individual Efforts to Reduce the Volume of the Waste Stream

question 14

Multiple Choice

Individual efforts to reduce the volume of the waste stream

• A)have enormous cumulative effects.
• B)are fairly useful because it demonstrates to corporations that we care.
• C)have some effects,but we need to target industries to reduce their waste stream instead.
• D)have little effect but make people feel better.
• E)matter very little.

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Definitions:

Reaction Yield

The amount of product formed in a chemical reaction, often expressed as a percentage of the theoretical maximum amount that could be produced.

Speed Up

To increase the rate or velocity of an object or a process.

Activation Energy

The lowest level of energy required by reactants to partake in a particular chemical process.

Catalysts Function

The role performed by substances that speed up chemical reactions without themselves being consumed or altered permanently.