When a company needs to reduce its production of hazardous waste, the pollution-prevention hierarchy strategy would encourage which of the following to be done FIRST?

A. Dispose of hazardous wastes in an environmentally safe manner.
B. Use the waste produced for another function.
C. Treat waste so that the volume is reduced.
D. Reduce the amount of waste produced at the manufacturing site.


Answer: D

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