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Environmental Management Systems (EMSs) have emerged as an important vehicle for improving environmental performance by providing organizations with the tools to both successfully manage their environmental activities, and to manage those activities in a cost effective manner. This web site provides information pertaining to waste EMS:
- Basic Information - describes what an EMS is and what its benefits are.
- EMS 101 On-line Training - course provides an overview of EMSs and how they can support environmental improvements at facilities that are subject to environmental regulations.
- EMS Success Stories - describes success stories that demonstrate the potential of EMSs as a way to achieve both individual facility and national Resource Conservation Challenge (RCC) goals in the areas of municipal waste recycling, beneficial reuse, electronics recycling, and toxic chemical reduction.
- Waste Management Related Initiatives - describes the efforts that EPA's Office of Solid Waste (OSW) is undertaking to encourage EMS development in the waste area.