who am I?
I painted, catalogues and described many birds that live in North America.
Who is John J Audubon?
To reuse materials such as glass, aluminum, steel, and plastic to make new items.
What is recycling?
The fresh water below the Earth’s surface.
What is groundwater?
This law provides for the protection of threatened and endangered plants and animals.
What is the Endangered Species Act?
This state agency focuses on wildlife protection and management.
What is the PA Game Commission?
I founded the Sierra Club and wrote The Mountains of California.
Who is John Muir?
This is the number of times an aluminum can is able to be recycled.
What is infinitely?
The watershed that includes PA, DC, DE, MD, NY, VA, and WV.
What is the Chesapeake Bay Watershed?
The federal law that regulates discharges of pollutants into waterways.
What is the Clean Water Act?
This organization manages over 4500 acres of parkland in York County.
What is the York County Parks?
I am known as “the father of wildlife management.”
Who is Aldo Leopoldo?
Placing items in a recycling container that hope are recyclable but are not.
What is aspirational recycling?
The 3 major stormwater runoff pollutants.
What is phosphorus, nitrogen, and sediment?
State law that laid the groundwork for water quality standards.
What is the PA Clean Streams Act?
This was the lead agency monitoring the meltdown of the Unit 2 reactor at Three Mile Island.
What is the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?
I researched the effects of DDT and other chemicals on the environment. I also was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Who is Rachel Carson?
This recycled item can make carpet, a ski jacket, or a t-shirt.
What is a plastic bottle?
The goal of the York County Clean Water Action Plan is to reduce nitrogen by this much by 2025.
What is 4 million pounds?
Part of the Pollution Reduction Act, this refers to the practices that reduce hazardous substances from being released prior to recycling or disposal.
What is source reduction?
The Resource Recovery Center is part of this organization.
What is the York County Solid Waste Authority?
I am a biographer and author. An organization that bears my name used to be the home of the York County Envirothon.
Who is Issac Walton?
The number of plastic straws used in the United States every day.
What is 500 million?
# of impaired streams in PA.
What is 15,000 miles
The National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit program was a result of this law.
What is the Clean Water Act?
Small group of citizens appointed by a municipality to assist in environmental matters.
What is an Environmental Advisory Council (EAC)?