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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