Question

1 multiple choice 20 points
what step could you take to reduce your impact on the land if you are building a new house?
use doors and windows from a secondhand store
build on a new lot and clear all the trees away
use bricks to reduce your impact on the land
buy your wood from a large national home improvement store

2 multiple choice 20 points
a city has more trash added to its landfill each year. there are few places to open a new one. besides recycling, which strategy would help reduce the number of items people throw away?
make trash collection more expensive for residents
do not enforce fines for littering
make plastic bags available at all stores
reduce the size of resident trash bins

Explanation:

Analyze Question 1

Reducing impact on the land during construction involves minimizing resource consumption and habitat destruction. Using secondhand materials (doors and windows) reduces the demand for new raw materials and manufacturing energy, thereby lowering the overall environmental footprint. Clearing trees, using new bricks, or buying from large national chains do not directly minimize land impact as effectively as reusing materials.

Analyze Question 2

To reduce the volume of waste generated, structural incentives must encourage residents to throw away less. Reducing the physical size of residential trash bins directly limits the volume of waste each household can easily discard, prompting them to reduce, reuse, or compost more. Making trash collection more expensive might encourage illegal dumping, not enforcing littering fines increases waste in public spaces, and making plastic bags widely available increases plastic waste.

Answer:

Question 1

• (A) use doors and windows from a secondhand store (Correct answer)
• (B) build on a new lot and clear all the trees away
• (C) use bricks to reduce your impact on the land
• (D) buy your wood from a large national home improvement store

Question 2

• (A) make trash collection more expensive for residents
• (B) do not enforce fines for littering
• (C) make plastic bags available at all stores
• (D) reduce the size of resident trash bins (Correct answer)