Land, Waste and Emergency Management Innovations
Innovation Pilots by Primary Focus Areas
Primary Focus Areas
Chemical Management
Compost/Food Related
Consumer Choice/Retail
Electronics Recycling
Emergency Preparedness
Environmental Results Program
Green Buildings
Green Facility Management
Green Remediation
Hospitals
Land Revitalization
Material Reuse
Product Stewardship
Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Waste to Energy
Other
Chemical Management
- Expanding Pharmaceutical Waste Management in Hospitals
- Testing Chemical Management Services in Schools
Compost/Food Related
- Agricultural and Municipal Cooperation in Co-composting Green and Animal Wastes
- Anaerobic Degestion Facility for Urban Food Waste
- City of McAllen “Save the Greens” Resource Recycling, Recovery, and Composting Pilot Project.
- University Food Waste Composting
Consumer Choice/Retail
- Environmentally Beneficial Behavior Placement in Television
- Florida Green Lodging Locator andInformation Service
- Retail Buyer Training on Recycled-Content Products
Electronics Recycling
- Closing the E-Design – E-Scrap Loop
- Collecting and Recycling Used Computers Via the Reverse Distribution System
- Effectiveness of Cell Phone Reuse, Refurbishment, and Recycling Programs
- Measuring the Environmental Benefits of Federal Electronic Equipment Management Practices
- Project PURE: Promoting Understanding of RFID and the Environment
Emergency Preparedness
- Characterizing Environmental Contamination through Airborne Hyperspectral Imaging
- Emergency Prevention, Preparedness, and Response in Smaller Communities
- Unidocs Hazardous Materials Inventory
Environmental Results Program
Green Buildings
- Assessment of Gasification Technologies for Wet Wastes
- Creating an Integrated “Green”Parking Lot and Urban Wetlands on a Former Commercial Site
- Innovative Use of Recycled Materials to Increase Beneficial Use of Construction and Demolition (C&D) Debris Fines
- Green Building Transit Leadership Project - BART District
- Green Gas Stations
- Municipal Self-Evaluation Process for Leaner-Greener Cities
- Promoting Innovative Green Infrastructure Concepts to R5 Stakeholders
- Sustainable Products Movement: Opportunity to Advance Materials Management Principles for Resource Conservation and GHG benefits
- Taking the NEWMOA Beneficial Use Determinations (BUDs) Database Nationwide
Green Facility Management
- Assisting Small Businesses in Voluntary Pollution Prevention Efforts: Facility Decontamination in the Wood Preserving Industry
- Integrated Tribal Environmental Management Center
- Sustainable Transit Leadership
Green Remediation
- Green Cleanup Certification Program
- Green Remediation Tech Support at Contaminated Sites
- Microbial Fuel Cell Technology - In Site Bioremediation of Petroleum Contaminated Sites
Hospitals
- Collaborative Partnership to Improve Environmental Performance in the Healthcare Sector
- Improving Management of Household Prescription Medication Waste
- Northwest Hospitals for a Healthy Environment (H2E) Recycling Pilot Program for Rural Hospitals
Land Revitalization
- Brockton Brightfields, Innovative Green Power Marketing
- Entering Institutional Controls into One-Call Systems
- Groundwater Remediation Powered by Renewable Energy Sources
- Innovative Multi-Media Environmental Curriculum Pilot
- Performance and Sustainability of Mulch Biowalls for Environmental Cleanup
- Rail-Trail Conversion Resource Guide
- Unified Phased Site Assessments
- Use of Composts to Reduce Lead and Arsenic Soil Contamination
Material Reuse
- Building Deconstruction and Reuse
- Creating a National Reuse Marketplace: A Search Engine Uniting Materials Exchanges
- Decision Analysis Tool for Managing Industrial Byproducts
- 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
- 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
- Potential Recycling of Medium Density Fiberboard
- Reusing Fly Ash to Produce a New Wastewater Treatment Chemical
- Tear-off Asphalt Shingles Recycling
- Testing the Viability of Converting Wood Pallet Waste-to-Flooring
- Using Auto Shredder Residue as Cement Manufacturing Feedstock
Product Stewardship
- Automobiles and Product Stewardship: Issues and Opportunities for Material and Toxicity Neutral Personal Transportation
- Closing the E-Design – E-Scrap Loop
- Decision-Support Tool and Implementation Action Plans for Municipal Level Waste Management Practices to Reduce Greenhouse Gases
- eCommerce Packaging and Shipping Design and Design Challenge Call (PDF) (1 pg, 27K, About PDF)
- Greening Industrial Design
- National Paint Product Stewardship Dialogue
- 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
- Sustainable Products Movement: Opportunity to Advance Materials Management Principles for Resource Conservation and GHG benefits
- Taking the NEWMOA Beneficial Use Determinations (BUDs) Database Nationwide
Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- 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
- Estimating Greenhouse Gas Reductions from Waste Prevention and Recycling: What to do when it’s not covered by WARM
- Renewable Energy Potential from Superfund Landfills
Waste to Energy
- Biomass Energy Conversion Study
- Costilla County Biodiesel Waste-to-Energy Demonstration
- Microbial Fuel Cell Technology - In Site Bioremediation of Petroleum Contaminated Sites
- Reducing Production Costs and Nitrogen Oxide Emissions from Biodiesel
- Renewable Energy Potential from Superfund Landfills
- Urban Waste to Fuel Initiative
- Waste to Energy Geographic Planning Tool
Other
- Financial Performance Benchmark for Recycling Businesses
- Voluntary Reductions in Dental Amalgam Mercury
If you have any questions please contact Jeff Kohn, EPA OSWER at (202) 566-1407, EPA's Solid Waste and Emergency Response Innovations Coordinator.