Question

Garbage-strewn landscapes surround many Russian apartment buildings for all of the following reasons except: (A) Consumption has increased markedly since communism’s end.(B) There is little space for land fills.(C) Public services such as trash pick-up have not kept up with development.(D) Imported goods are more available, but often wastefully packaged.

Answer 1

The correct answer is B) There is little space for landfills.

Garbage-strewn landscapes surround many Russian apartment buildings for all of the following reasons except: "There is little space for landfills."

The reasons for garbage-strewn landscapes that surrounded many Russian apartment buildings were because of consumption has increased markedly since communism’s end, public services such as trash pick-up have not kept up with development, and imported goods are more available, but often wastefully packaged.

When the Soviet Union collapsed on December 26, 1991, due to Mikail Gorbachev's policies of Perestroika and Glasnost, things suddenly changed for the soviet people that lived under oppression for many years. Totalitarianism was over but all of a sudden, the new political an economic structure was under construction and this created a void in many aspects of society that affected people, systems, and operations not only in Russia but in the newly formed states.