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Innovation Pilots by OSWER Priority Area
OSWER Innovation Pilot Projects
Homeland Security / Chemical Emergency Prevention Preparedness and Response
Revitalization / Land Reuse / One Cleanup
Waste Minimization / Recycling / Energy Recovery / Retail (Resource Conversation Challenge)
Homeland Security / Chemical Emergency Prevention Preparedness and Response
- Characterizing Environmental Contamination through Airborne Hyperspectral Imaging
- Emergency Prevention, Preparedness, and Response in Smaller Communities
- Unidocs Hazardous Materials Inventory
Revitalization / Land Reuse / One Cleanup
- Brockton Brightfields, Innovative Green Power Marketing
- Entering Institutional Controls into One-Call Systems
- Green Cleanup Certification Program
- Green Remediation Tech Support at Contaminated Sites
- Groundwater Remediation Powered by Renewable Energy Sources
- Innovative Multi-Media Environmental Curriculum Pilot
- Microbial Fuel Cell Technology – In Site Bioremediation of Petroleum Contaminated Sites
- Performance and Sustainability of Mulch Biowalls for Environmental Cleanup
- Rail-Trail Conversion Resource Guide
- Renewable Energy Potential from Superfund Landfills
- Unified Phased Site Assessments
- Use of Composts to Reduce Lead and Arsenic Soil Contamination
Waste Minimization / Recycling / Energy Recovery / Retail (Resource Conversation Challenge)
- Anaerobic Degestion Facility for Urban Food Waste
- Agricultural and Municipal Cooperation in Co-composting Green and Animal Wastes
- Assessment of Gasification Technologies for Wet Wastes
- Assisting Small Businesses in Voluntary Pollution Prevention Efforts: Facility Decontamination in the Wood Preserving Industry
- Automobiles and Product Stewardship: Issues and Opportunities for Material and Toxicity Neutral Personal Transportation
- Biomass Energy Conversion Study
- Building Deconstruction and Reuse
- City of McAllen “Save the Greens” Resource Recycling, Recovery, and Composting Pilot Project.
- Collaborative Partnership to Improve Environmental Performance in the Healthcare Sector
- Collecting and Recycling Used Computers Via the Reverse Distribution System
- Costilla County Biodiesel Waste-to-Energy Demonstration
- Closing the E-Design – E-Scrap Loop
- Creating an Integrated “Green”Parking Lot and Urban Wetlands on a Former Commercial Site
- Creating a National Reuse Marketplace: A Search Engine Uniting Materials Exchanges
- Decision Analysis Tool for Managing Industrial Byproducts
- Decision-Support Tool and Implementation Action Plans for Municipal Level Waste Management Practices to Reduce Greenhouse Gases
- Deconstruction and Building with Reused Materials Training
- Deconstruction: The Problem with Debris
- Deconstruction for Urban Revitalization
- Design for Disassembly in the Built Environment
- Developing a Policy to Faciliate the Use of Drum Top Crushing Devices for Fluorescent Lamps
- eCommerce Packaging and Shipping Design and Design Challenge Call (PDF) (1 pg, 27K, About PDF)
- Effectiveness of Cell Phone Reuse, Refurbishment, and Recycling Programs
- Environmental Results Program for Underground Storage Tank Systems
- 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
- Expanding Pharmaceutical Waste Management in Hospitals
- Green Building Transit Leadership Project - BART District
- Green Gas Stations
- Greening Industrial Design
- Financial Performance Benchmark for Recycling Businesses
- Florida Green Lodging Locator andInformation Service
- Improving Management of Household Prescription Medication Waste
- Industrial Phosphate Sludge Waste as a Raw Material for Iron Phosphate Glass
- Innovative Use of Recycled Materials to Increase Beneficial Use of Construction and Demolition (C&D) Debris Fines
- Integrated Tribal Environmental Management Center
- Measuring the Environmental Benefits of Federal Electronic Equipment Management Practices
- Municipal Self-Evaluation Process for Leaner-Greener Cities
- National Paint Product Stewardship Dialogue
- Northwest Hospitals for a Healthy Environment (H2E) Recycling Pilot Program for Rural Hospitals
- Potential Recycling of Medium Density Fiberboard
- Product Stewardship Institute - Research to Support National Dialog for Fluorescent Lighting
- Project PURE: Promoting Understanding of RFID and the Environment
- Promoting Innovative Green Infrastructure Concepts to R5 Stakeholders
- Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Tracking of Hazardous Materials across International Borders
- Reducing Production Costs and Nitrogen Oxide Emissions from Biodiesel
- Retail Buyer Training on Recycled-Content Products
- Reusing Fly Ash to Produce a New Wastewater Treatment Chemical
- Sustainable Products Movement: Opportunity to Advance Materials Management Principles for Resource Conservation and GHG benefits
- Sustainable Transit Leadership
- Taking the NEWMOA Beneficial Use Determinations (BUDs) Database Nationwide
- Tear-off Asphalt Shingles Recycling
- Testing Chemical Management Services in Schools
- Testing the Viability of Converting Wood Pallet Waste-to-Flooring
- University Food Waste Composting
- Urban Waste to Fuel Initiative
- Using Auto Shredder Residue as Cement Manufacturing Feedstock
- Voluntary Reductions in Dental Amalgam Mercury
- Waste to Energy Geographic Planning Tool
If you have any questions please contact Jeff Kohn, EPA OSWER at (202) 566-1407, EPA's Solid Waste and Emergency Response Innovations Coordinator.