The town of Greenfield recently instituted a substantial supplementary

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The town of Greenfield recently instituted a substantial supplementary tax on all households, whereby each household is taxed in proportion to the volume of the trash that it puts out for trash collectors to pick up, as measured by the number of standard-sized garbage bags put out. In order to reduce the volume of the trash on which their tax bill is based, Greenfield households can deliver their recyclable trash to a conveniently located local commercial recycling center, where such trash is accepted free of charge.

The supplementary tax provides some financial incentive to Greenfield households to do each of the following EXCEPT

(A) sort out recyclable trash thoroughly from their other trash

(B) dump nonrecyclable trash illegally at parks and roadsides

(C) compress and nest items of nonrecyclable trash before putting them out for pickup

(D) deliver recyclable materials to the recycling center instead of passing them on to neighbors who want to reuse them

(E) buy products without packaging or with recyclable rather than nonrecyclable packaging

exc4libur · Answer

ARGUMENT
  garbage tax based on volume of trash put out;
  tax-free to dispose of recyclable's at a center.

FIND FINANCIAL INCENTIVES
(A) yes, sorting out recyclables provides some $ incentive, because this could reduce their volume;
(B) yes, this would reduce their volume free of charge;
(C) yes, more trash would fit into each bag;
(E) yes, more recyclables that can be disposed tax-free.

Ans (D)  delivering to the center or passing trash to someone else is the same thing, both reduce your volume tax-free.

unraveled · Answer

The town of Greenfield recently instituted a substantial supplementary tax on all households, whereby each household is taxed in proportion to the volume of the trash that it puts out for trash collectors to pick up, as measured by the number of standard-sized garbage bags put out. In order to reduce the volume of the trash on which their tax bill is based, Greenfield households can deliver their recyclable trash to a conveniently located local commercial recycling center, where such trash is accepted free of charge.

The supplementary tax provides some financial incentive to Greenfield households to do each of the following EXCEPT

This is a great question with a subtle catch. Actions of households are rewarded in the form of financial incentives in indirect form. The lesser the volume of the trash a household has the lesser the tax it gives. Also, recyclable trash is exempted(at least as can be inferred) from supplementary tax since it is accepted free of charge whatever be the volume.

(A) sort out recyclable trash thoroughly from their other trash - WRONG. The act is incentivized indirectly since the volume is lessened after recyclable trash is separated.

(B) dump nonrecyclable trash illegally at parks and roadsides - CORRECT. Its clear straight forward that this act does not lead to incentives rather to fines, may be, since it is not mentioned in the argument. The option takes things in opposite direction if not to incentives.

(C) compress and nest items of nonrecyclable trash before putting them out for pickup - WRONG. Compressing reduced the volume of trash thus incentives.

(D) deliver recyclable materials to the recycling center instead of passing them on to neighbors who want to reuse them - WRONG. This is closest to the correct answer. The act of passing on the recyclable materials to neighbors is not mentioned in the argument but households do so then they are not incentivized anyway but delivering recyclable materials to recycling centers would not cause anything to them.

(E) buy products without packaging or with recyclable rather than nonrecyclable packaging - WRONG. With standard packaging would cost since the ackaging would increase the volume thus increasing the tax. A recyclable packaging would not increasing the volume on the other hand.

IMO Answer B.

Munah · Answer

(B) dump nonrecyclable trash illegally at parks and roadsides

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freedom128 · Answer

(A) is incorrect. Because the tax is based on volume of trash set out for collection and because recyclable trash can be disposed of free of charge, there is a financial incentive to do this.

(B) is incorrect. Because the tax is based on the volume of trash that is set out, there is a financial incentive to minimize this amount of trash. One way to do this is to dump illegally.

(C) is wrong because it would reduce the volume of the trash, thereby reducing the volume. The reduced volume would reduce the supplemental tax. There is a financial incentive to do it.

(D) is the CORRECT ANSWER choice. Tax is based on volume of trash set out for collection, so if any items are sent to the recycling center or given to neighbors, the tax would be no different for the household. There is a financial incentive to recycle items that would have been set out for collection, but there is no financial incentive to recycle items that would be given to neighbors to reuse.

(E) is wrong because there is a financial incentive to reduce the volume of trash set out for collection. This answer involves buying products with no packaging or with recyclable packaging. These types of products would eliminate the volume of trash set out for collection, either because there is no packaging or because the packaging could be taken to the recycling center.

FINAL ANSWER IS (D)

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