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.
ANS: 3
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