Land, Waste and Emergency Management Innovations
Innovations Pilots by Year
2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002
2009
- Assessment of Gasification Technologies for Wet 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
- Deconstruction: The Problem with Debris
- Estimating Greenhouse Gas Reductions from Waste Prevention and Recycling: What to do when it’s not covered by WARM
- Microbial Fuel Cell Technology - In Site Bioremediation of Petroleum Contaminated Sites
- Renewable Energy Potential from Superfund Landfills
- Sustainable Products Movement: Opportunity to Advance Materials Management Principles for Resource Conservation and GHG benefits
2008
- Green Building Transit Leadership Project - BART District
- Green Cleanup Certification Program
- Green Gas Stations
- Green Remediation Tech Support at Contaminated Sites
- Municipal Self-Evaluation Process for Leaner-Greener Cities
- Product Stewardship Institute - Research to Support National Dialog for Fluorescent Lighting
- Promoting Innovative Green Infrastructure Concepts to R5 Stakeholders
- Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Tracking of Hazardous Materials across International Borders
- Sustainable Products Movement: Opportunity to Advance Materials Management Principles for Resource Conservation and GHG benefits
- Taking the NEWMOA Beneficial Use Determinations (BUDs) Database Nationwide
2007
- City of McAllen “Save the Greens” Resource Recycling, Recovery, and Composting Pilot Project.
- Closing the E-Design – E-Scrap Loop
- Creating a National Reuse Marketplace: A Search Engine Uniting Materials Exchanges
- Innovative Use of Recycled Materials to Increase Beneficial Use of Construction and Demolition (C&D) Debris Fines
- Project PURE: Promoting Understanding of RFID and the Environment
2005
- Decision Analysis Tool for Managing Industrial Byproducts
- Deconstruction and Building with Reused Materials Training
- Northwest Hospitals for a Healthy Environment (H2E) Recycling Pilot Program for Rural Hospitals
- Performance and Sustainability of Mulch Biowalls for Environmental Cleanup
- Reusing Fly Ash to Produce a New Wastewater Treatment Chemical
- Tear-off Asphalt Shingles Recycling
- Urban Waste to Fuel Initiative
- Voluntary Reductions in Dental Amalgam Mercury
2004
- Characterizing Environmental Contamination Through Airborne Hyperspectral Imaging
- Deconstruction for Urban Revitalization
- Design for Disassembly in the Built Environment
- Expanding Pharmaceutical Waste Management in Hospitals
- Expanding the Availability of Renewable Energy from Waste Oil
- Expanding Web Portal on Hazardous Materials Inventory
- Improving Emergency Preparedness and Response in Smaller Communities
- Improving Management of Household Prescription Medication Waste
- Measuring the Environmental Benefits of Federal Electronic Equipment Management Practices
- Reducing Production Costs and Nitrogen Oxide Emissions from Biodiesel
- Using Auto Shredder Residue as Cement Manufacturing Feedstock
- Using Composts to Reduce Lead and Arsenic Soil Contamination
- Waste-to-Energy Geographic Planning Tool
2003
- Agricultural & Municipal Cooperation in Composting Green and Animal Wastes
- An Integrated “Green” Parking Lot and Urban Wetlands
- Brockton Brightfields
- Collaborative Partnership to Effect Significant Environmental Performance and Compliance Improvements in the Healthcare Sector
- Developing & Testing a Unified Phase Assessment for Site Assessments
- Environmental Behavior Placement on TV
- Financial Benchmarks for Recycling Businesses
- Florida Green Lodging Certification Program’s Web Locator and Green Information Service
- Greening Industrial Design
- Innovative Training for Retail Purchasing Agents on Recycled Content Products
- National Paint Product Stewardship Dialogue
- Potential Recycling of Medium Density Fiberboard
- Powering Groundwater Cleanup by a Renewable Energy Source
- Rails-to-Trails Conversion Resource Guide
- Small Scale Anaerobic Digester
- Testing Chemical Management Services in Universities
- Testing Reuse of Phosphate Sludge
- Testing the Environmental Results Program for Underground Storage Tanks
2002
- Assisting Facility Decontamination in the Wood Preserving Industry
- Biomass Energy Conversion Study
- Building Deconstruction and Reuse
- Developing of a Policy to Facilitate the Use of Drum Top Crushing Devices for Fluorescent Lamps
- eCommerce Packaging and Shipping Design
- Effectiveness of Cell Phone Reuse, Refurbishment, and Recycling Programs
- Entering Institutional Controls into One-Call Systems
- Innovative Multi-Media Environmental Curriculum Pilot
- Integrated Tribal Environmental Management Center
- Sustainable Transit Leadership
- Testing the Viability of Converting Wood Pallet Waste-to-Flooring
- University Food Waste Composting