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
- 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
- Deconstruction: The Problem with Debris
- Expanding Pharmaceutical Waste Management in Hospitals
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- Municipal Self-Evaluation Process for Leaner-Greener Cities
- Potential Recycling of Medium Density Fiberboard
- 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
- 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.
- Creating an Integrated “Green”Parking Lot and Urban Wetlands on a Former Commercial 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
- Voluntary Reductions in Dental Amalgam Mercury
- Region 8
(Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Sustainable Transit Leadership
- Testing Chemical Management Services in Schools
- Urban Waste to Fuel Initiative
- Region 10
(Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Washington)
- Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery (ORCR)
(United States) - 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)
- Project PURE: Promoting Understanding of RFID and the Environment
- Estimating Greenhouse Gas Reductions from Waste Prevention and Recycling: What to do when it’s not covered by WARM
- Sustainable Products Movement: Opportunity to Advance Materials Management Principles for Resource Conservation and GHG benefits
- Using Auto Shredder Residue as Cement Manufacturing Feedstock