In each of the following paragraphs, click on the correct description of the italicized material that follows the letter: comma splice or no comma splice.

In the past 20 years, consumers have become more and more aware of the environment. After World War II, Americans became not only a consumer society but a disposable society as well. People used paper plates and plastic flatware to eat dinner, ___1___ (comma splice/no comma splice) afterward they cleaned up using paper towels. Consumers bought health and beauty aids packaged in layers of plastic and cardboard, ___2___ (comma splice/no comma splice) babies wore disposable diapers. If an alien had landed anywhere in the United States during the 1960s, ___3___ (comma splice/no comma splice)they would have considered us the most wasteful people on earth.