Renewable Energy
This renewable energy relies on panels that soak in sun rays for electricity.
What is solar energy?
True/False - Glass can be recycled through our York County recycling program.
FALSE!
This is the factor of waste that eating all your school food helps to reduce.
What is food waste?
This club is the leading effort for sustainability at NaFo (and sometimes the school district).
What is sustainability club?
You can use this instead of plastic bottles.
What are reusable water bottles?
This is the renewable energy source that uses turning windmills to generate electricity.
What is wind power?
You must make sure all your bottles and jugs have this when being recycled.
What is their lids?
This is what the three Rs associated with sustainability stand for.
What is reduce, reuse, and recycle?
The effort to put out only carbon emissions that can be counteracted with available resources (extremely reducing these emissions).
What is net zero?
This is an easy way to reduce CO2 emissions on your way to school.
What is walking, biking, or carpooling?
This uses moving water to turn turbines or water wheels to create electricity.
What is hydropower?
This is commonly recycled in schools (preferably uncrumpled).
What is paper?
You should opt for this type of bag at the store to reduce waste from thin plastics.
What is paper or cloth shopping bags?
This is the most sustainable type of farming, already used in wide-scale commercial farms.
What is hydroponics?
This is something you can introduce to your home for lower food waste and higher nutrients in your garden.
What is a composter?
This renewable energy occurs due to the utilization of the heat of the Earth's core.
What is geothermal energy?
This must occur before you recycle containers.
What is rinse away all food or drink residue?
This process uses organisms like bacteria, fungi, and small animals to turn organic waste into soil.
What is composting?
This is the country leading in recycling rates.
What is Switzerland (52%)?
You can start lessening these types of products and opting for faux versions and vegetables to conserve land, resources, and clean air.
What is animal products?
State why trees are not a renewable resource if they grow back.
What is because trees grow back at a slower rate than that of which humans use them, leading to deforestation?
These are the only types of plastics that can be recycled in York County.
What is type 1 (PET) and type 2 (HDPE)?
This is what you need to do to recycle and reduce your amount of glass.
What is take it to a curbside drop-off at a glass-accepting recycling center?
Name one of the top 3 leading companies for Net Zero (according to Forbes).
What is (#1) Phillip Morris International, (#2) Johnson & Johnson, and (#3) Tesla?
Name the most sustainable shopping store (out of the 4) and why: Target, Shein, Goodwill, or Forever 21.
What is Goodwill because it reuses and repurposes cloths and other furnishings instead of following wasteful fast fashions?