Author Question: Solid waste management is vitally important for all of the following reasons except 1. Costs ... (Read 24 times)

vicotolentino · **on:** Jul 8, 2018

Solid waste management is vitally important for all of the following reasons except

1. Costs involved in waste management.
2. Esthetic offense with consequent property depreciation.
3. To allow conservationists and politicians a forum to defend their positions.
4. To reduce the possibility of discarded toxic and infectious material reaching populations.

Question 2

Among the major air pollutants are carbon monoxide, sulfur oxides, and hydrocarbons. A primary source of all of these is

1. Combustion of coal and petrochemicals.
2. Deforestation of tropical rain forests in South America and Africa.
3. Hydroelectric plants.
4. Incineration of solid wastes.
5. Nuclear power plants.