Land, Waste and Emergency Management Innovations
Innovations Projects by Region - Where You Live
OSWER Innovation Projects
EPA has ten regional offices, each of which is responsible for several states and territories. To get information about your region, select your region from the map below.
Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery
Office of Superfund Remediation and Technology Innovation
Listing of States by Region
- Region 1
(Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont) - Assessment of Gasification Technologies for Wet Wastes
- Catalyzing Composting in Urban Communities
- Collaborative Partnership to Improve Environmental Performance in the Healthcare Sector
- Collecting and Recycling Used Computers Via the Reverse Distribution System
- Creating a National Reuse Marketplace: A Search Engine Uniting Materials Exchanges
- Deconstruction and Building with Reused Materials Training
- Expanding Pharmaceutical Waste Management in Hospitals
- Getting to Zero: A Resource Management Guide for New England Communities
- Improving Management of Household Prescription Medication Waste
- Innovative Use of Recycled Materials to Increase Beneficial Use of Construction and Demolition (C&D) Debris Fines
- Renewable Energy Potential from Superfund Landfills
- Source Reduction 2.0: Integrating Capacity within WasteWise to Measure and Track Upstream Food Waste Source Reduction and Serve as a Value-Added Auditing and Tracking Tool for Our Partners
- Taking the NEWMOA Beneficial Use Determinations (BUDs) Database Nationwide
- Testing the Environmental Results Program for Underground Storage Tank Systems
- Region 2
(New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands)
- Region 3
(Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia) - Deconstruction for Urban Revitalization
- Deconstruction: The Problem with Debris
- Developing a Policy to Faciliate the Use of Drum Top Crushing Devices for Fluorescent Lamps
- Encouraging Local Green Building Construction and Operation Through Strategic Web Resources
- Green Cleanup Certification Program
- Food Donation Magic
- Region 4
(Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee) - Building Deconstruction and Reuse
- Deconstruction: The Problem with Debris
- Design for Disassembly in the Built Environment
- Florida Green Lodging Locator andInformation Service
- Sustainable Design and Green Building Toolkit for Local Governments
- Potential Recycling of Medium Density Fiberboard
- Recovered Packaging Material Database
- Testing the Viability of Converting Wood Pallet Waste-to-Flooring
- Region 5
(Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin) - Automobiles and Product Stewardship: Issues and Opportunities for Material and Toxicity Neutral Personal Transportation
- Decision Analysis Tool for Managing Industrial Byproducts
- Estimating Greenhouse Gas Reductions from Waste Prevention and Recycling: What to do when it’s not covered by WARM
- Financial Performance Benchmark for Recycling Businesses
- Industrial Phosphate Sludge Waste as a Raw Material for Iron Phosphate Glass
- Mallard North Landfill Innovative Energy Production, Hanover Park, IL
- Measuring the Environmental Benefits of Federal Electronic Equipment Management Practices
- Promoting Innovative Green Infrastructure Concepts to R5 Stakeholders
- Retail Buyer Training on Recycled-Content Products
- Tear-off Asphalt Shingles Recycling
- Region 6
(Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas) - City of McAllen “Save the Greens” Resource Recycling, Recovery, and Composting Pilot Project.
- Communicating with Color – Color Coding Data and Risk at Three Region 6 Remedial Sites
- Creating an Integrated “Green”Parking Lot and Urban Wetlands on a Former Commercial Site
- Hydrogen Fuel Cell – Alternative Energy to Power Long Term Groundwater Remedy at Bayou Bonfouca Superfund Site
- Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Tracking of Hazardous Materials across International Borders
- Waste to Energy Geographic Planning Tool
- Region 7
(Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska) - Assisting Small Businesses in Voluntary Pollution Prevention Efforts: Facility Decontamination in the Wood Preserving Industry
- Biomass Energy Conversion Study
- Integrated Tribal Environmental Management Center
- Green Gas Stations
- Reusing Fly Ash to Produce a New Wastewater Treatment Chemical
- Source Reduction 2.0: Integrating Capacity within WasteWise to Measure and Track Upstream Food Waste Source Reduction and Serve as a Value-Added Auditing and Tracking Tool for Our Partners
- Voluntary Reductions in Dental Amalgam Mercury
- Region 8
(Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming) - Costilla County Biodiesel Waste-to-Energy Demonstration
- Designing Storm Water Management into Solar Arrays on Contaminated Land
- Innovative Mine Remediation in the Upper Clear Creek Watershed: Design Analysis and Construction of Chemically Enhanced Best Management Practices (BPMs)
- Microbial Fuel Cell Technology - In Site Bioremediation of Petroleum Contaminated Sites
- Product Stewardship Institute - Research to Support National Dialog for Fluorescent Lighting
- University Food Waste Composting
- Region 9
(American Samoa, Arizona, California, Guam, Hawaii, Nevada, Northern Mariana Islands, Trust Territories) - Agricultural and Municipal Cooperation in Co-composting Green and Animal Wastes
- Applying Social Marketing Techniques to Reduce Wasteful Consumption
- Automobiles and Product Stewardship: Issues and Opportunities for Material and Toxicity Neutral Personal Transportation
- Decision-Support Tool and Implementation Action Plans for Municipal Level Waste Management Practices to Reduce Greenhouse Gases
- Environmentally Beneficial Behavior Placement in Television
- Estimating Greenhouse Gas Reductions from Waste Prevention and Recycling: What to do when it’s not covered by WARM
- Food Fight: Preventing Food Waste Upstream
- Green Building Transit Leadership Project - BART District
- Measuring the Environmental Benefits of Federal Electronic Equipment Management Practices
- National Paint Product Stewardship Dialogue
- Reducing Production Costs and Nitrogen Oxide Emissions from Biodiesel
- Recycle City 2.0
- Simplified Lifecycle Analysis of Recycled Plastic in Electronics
- Source Reduction 2.0: Integrating Capacity within WasteWise to Measure and Track Upstream Food Waste Source Reduction and Serve as a Value-Added Auditing and Tracking Tool for Our Partners
- Sustainable Transit Leadership
- Testing Chemical Management Services in Schools
- Urban Waste to Fuel Initiative
- Region 10
(Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Washington) - Applying Social Marketing Techniques to Reduce Wasteful Consumption
- Automobiles and Product Stewardship: Issues and Opportunities for Material and Toxicity Neutral Personal Transportation
- Closing the E-Design - E-Scrap Loop
- Fate and Effects of Dumpsite Leachate Contamination on Alaska’s Tribal Drinking Water Sources
- Miners Engage in Idaho Mercury Roundup
- Northwest Hospitals for a Healthy Environment (H2E) Recycling Pilot Program for Rural Hospitals
- Source Reduction 2.0: Integrating Capacity within WasteWise to Measure and Track Upstream Food Waste Source Reduction and Serve as a Value-Added Auditing and Tracking Tool for Our Partners
- Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery (ORCR)
(United States) - Analysis of Vapor Intrusion Data to Establish an Appropriate Perimeter Around a Groundwater Plume for a No Further Vapor Intrusion Assessment Decision
- Applying Social Marketing Techniques to Reduce Wasteful Consumption
- Assisting Small Businesses in Voluntary Pollution Prevention Efforts: Facility Decontamination in the Wood Preserving Industry
- Building Deconstruction and Reuse
- eCommerce Packaging and Shipping Design and Design Challenge Call (PDF) (1 pg, 27K, About PDF)
- Estimating Greenhouse Gas Reductions from Waste Prevention and Recycling: What to do when it’s not covered by WARM
- Project PURE: Promoting Understanding of RFID and the Environment
- Recovered Packaging Material Database
- Sustainable Products Movement: Opportunity to Advance Materials Management Principles for Resource Conservation and GHG benefits
- Using Auto Shredder Residue as Cement Manufacturing Feedstock
- Office of Superfund Remediation and Technology Innovation (OSRTI)
(United States) - Analysis of Vapor Intrusion Data to Establish an Appropriate Perimeter Around a Groundwater Plume for a No Further Vapor Intrusion Assessment Decision
- Communicating with Color – Color Coding Data and Risk at Three Region 6 Remedial Sites
- Green Remediation Tech Support at Contaminated Sites
- Improving Access to Healthcare at Superfund Sites: Redevelopment Opportunities for Medically Underserved Communities
- Renewable Energy Potential from Superfund Landfills