In 2005, Ireland began taxing residents on how much garbage they threw away in an effort to promote recycling. In response, residents began burning trash (which is environmentally more harmful and resulted in an increase in burn victims as people accidentally set themselves on fire). This story suggests that the elasticity of demand for trash collection was more ______ than lawmakers believed because ______ than previously thought?
1) elastic, the increase in burn victims was greater
2) inelastic, the increase in burn victims was greater
3) elastic, the increase in burn victims was smaller
4) inelastic, the increase in burn victims was smaller