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Guide for Industrial Waste Management
Chapter 3: Integrating Pollution Prevention (PDF) (22 pp, 118K, About PDF)
This chapter offers advice on pollution prevention options when designing a waste management system. Pollution prevention measures such as source reduction, recycling, and treatment can reduce waste disposal needs; minimize impacts across all environmental media; reduce the volume and toxicity of toxic waste; and ease some of the burdens, risks, and liabilities of waste management.
This chapter helps to answer the following questions:
- What are some of the benefits of pollution prevention?
- Where can assistance in identifying and implementing specific pollution prevention options be obtained?
Resources
US EPA's Website for the Comprehensive Procurement Guidelines (CPG) program, a key component for the government's "buy-recycled" program.
US EPA's Pollution Prevention Website provides general information about pollution prevention practices, describes the array of pollution prevention programs and initiatives administered by EPA and other programs, and provides contacts for further information.
US EPA's Pollution Prevention Information Clearinghouse online form for ordering pollution prevention publications.
US EPA's Enviro$en$e Website provides a single repository for pollution prevention, compliance assurance, and enforcement information and databases.
US EPA's Office of Compliance Website that contains a series of industry
profiles/notebooks highlighting pollution prevention opportunities.
US EPA Region 3's pollution prevention Website describes tools for assessing pollution prevention.
The National Pollution Prevention Roundtable Website 
. The Roundtable
is the largest membership organization in the country dedicated solely
to promoting pollution prevention. This site contains information on workgroups,
events, listserves, information resources, and membership.
