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Q.

Read the passage given below and answer the following questions from (i) to (v):

The waste generated by humans has been detrimental to our environment and is causing threat to our ecosystem. We are generating too much trash and failing to deal with it in a sustainable way. Every day we are disposing tons and tons of non-biodegradable and unrecyclable waste into our oceans and landfills. Plastic waste is an example.

In 2017, the Environmental Protection Agency in the US calculated that the total generation of municipal solid waste in the United States in 2017 was 267.8 million tons; compared with 2015 levels, it was a 5.7 million increase.

 

(v) The depletion in the Ozone layer is caused by ________.
1 nitrous oxide  
2 carbon dioxide  
3 chlorofluorocarbons  
4 methane  

Ans.

(3)