Environment of Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania is a northeastern commonwealth located in the United States of America.

In fact, Pennsylvania is 50 percent forest land with the only lowlands located in the southeast.

[2] Pennsylvania has many different mountain ranges with the highest point being at 3,213 feet on Mt.

The Pocono Mountain Range runs throughout northeastern Pennsylvania.

However, this process of importing waste is very lucrative for the Pennsylvania counties by providing labor market opportunities and helps increase the municipality's budgets by fees paid by these exporting states.

[14] Act 101 at this time had four major goals:[15] These plans were going to be implemented throughout several phases within each municipality over the following years.

[19] Act 101 in its essence is still in place today for all municipalities and has only been revised twice to help strengthen and grow the program.

[20] The most recent change to Act 101 happened in May 2010 which is the extension of the collection of the recycling fee of $2-per-ton to 2020.

[26] This allows for a number of different avenues to bring in revenue throughout the parks within Pennsylvania that receive 9,935,361 individuals visiting them each year.

[27] This economic benefit can be the result of entrance fees, food purchases, and souvenirs.

This will result in only one small portion of the yearly revenue that these parks produce.