In India’s capital, new housing sprawls as far as the eye can see, a symbol of the world’s fastest growing major economy.There also are towering symbols of the environmental cost of all this. Ghazipur, one of the city’s landfills, more than 10 storieshigh, an accumulation by now of more than 10 million tons of waste, is one of the biggest problems in India now. Trucks arebringing in an additional 2,000 tons of unsorted garbage here every day.The trash problem is now a crisis at many levels. First, India is on the _________ zone, so if there is an earthquake, themound of trash would slide down. Even without an earthquake, festering garbage would spew toxins into the air while a stewof heavy metals and organic and inorganic pollutants washes into the soil when it rains.Now a company, contracted by Indian government, attempts to tackle this crisis by a power plant to convert waste toenergy, sent to the electric grid. However, this is not the first attempt at creating energy from waste. Previous ones haven’tworked, according to environmental activists, because of the inability to sort and segregate the waste which is then used forincineration. If the trash isn’t sorted properly, you may have both very toxic emissions that come out of the plant and fuel ofvery poor quality that is generated. The proper segregation of the trash fails because in a caste society like India, waste has beenthe domain of people on the lowest rung of the age-old social hierarchy, not the middle classes who generate most of it.
41. According to the article, which of the following statements is correct?
(A) Cleaners have to sort 2,000 tons of garbage in Ghazipur everyday.
(B) The tallest skyscraper in the capital of India is 10 stories high.
(C) The economic growth encourages India to abolish its age-old caste system.
(D) The landfill is a consequence accompanying the rising awareness of eco-friendliness.
(E) Toxic emissions out of the power plant may have to do with the heavy metals in the burned waste.