You have a lively discussion about environmental issues with a fellow student in your class. This student tells you that her family has purchased a bio-diesel fuel generator and uses it to produce fuel for the family vehicles

They collect used cooking oil from local fast-food restaurants to supply the raw materials for this process. This demonstrates an understanding of which key topics of environmental literacy?
a. Pollution prevention and waste reduction
b. Renewable energy resources
c. Environmentally sustainable economic systems
d. Environmental worldviews
e. All of these answers


E

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