Para Jumble: Microfactories for E-Waste Recycling

CAT 2023 Slot 3 · VARC · Easy · Verbal Ability

The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) given below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer.

  1. Veena Sahajwalla, a materials scientist at the University of New South Wales, believes there is a new way of solving this problem.
  2. Her vision is for automated drones and robots to pick out components, put them into a small furnace and smelt them at specific temperatures to extract the metals one by one before they are sent off to manufacturers for reuse.
  3. E-waste contains huge quantities of valuable metals, ceramics and plastics that could be salvaged and recycled, although currently not enough of it is.
  4. She plans to build microfactories that can tease apart the tangle of materials in mobile phones, computers and other e-waste.
Answer

3142

Explanation

The correct sequence is 3142. Sentence 3 introduces the problem (insufficient e-waste recycling). Sentence 1 introduces Veena Sahajwalla who proposes a solution to 'this problem'. Sentence 4 explains her plan to build microfactories. Sentence 2 elaborates on her vision for those microfactories.

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