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3 marksResource Consumption, Urbanisation, and Sustainability

CAPE Environmental Science Unit 1 · 2014 · Paper 2 · Question 5(c)(iii)

Table 5 displays the annual tonnage of municipal solid waste received by a Caribbean landfill between 1996 and 2004.

State the trend illustrated in Table 5 and explain how introducing a recycling programme could mitigate this issue.

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  1. 5(a)State TWO ecological reasons and ONE ethical reason for conserving resources.[3 marks]
  2. 5(b)Explain why traditional slash and burn agriculture by Indigenous Caribbean Peoples is considered sustainable.[4 marks]
  3. 5(c)(i)Calculate the total mass of solid waste sent to the landfill from 1998 to 2000.[2 marks]
  4. 5(c)(ii)Estimate the annual mass of municipal solid waste delivered to the landfill in 2005.[2 marks]
  5. 5(d)(i)Explain how natural resource conservation is achieved using EITHER land use planning and zoning regulations OR sustainable yield management.[3 marks]
  6. 5(d)(ii)Suggest THREE systems Caribbean governments can implement to effectively achieve natural resource conservation.[3 marks]

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