How can Washingtonians reduce water and ground pollution? Check all that applyby organizing river and lake cleanupsby increasing the use of toxic productsby disposing of toxic products down the drainby creating and enforcing laws that limit industrial wasteby recycling and educating people about proper disposal
Answer
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by organizing river and lake cleanups
B
by increasing the use of toxic products
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by disposing of toxic products down the drain
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by creating and enforcing laws that limit industrial waste
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by recycling and educating people about proper disposal
Explanation
River and lake cleanups remove pollution already in the environment. Creating and enforcing laws that limit industrial waste helps prevent pollution at its source, while recycling and teaching people how to dispose of waste properly also reduce pollution. Increasing toxic product use and pouring toxic products down the drain can worsen contamination, so those choices do not help.
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