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Sustainable Materials Management

To introduce businesses, NGOs, and government officials to the concept of Sustainable Materials Management (SMM). To provide tools to allow stakeholders to take a lifecycle approach managing their materials, & to encourage them to join a SMM challenge.

Facts and Figures about Materials, Waste and Recycling

The area will transform MSW information( to include what was in our Advancing SMM report) to better serve our audience’s needs. It will also hold data on certain industrial wastes, related job creation, and in the future, hazardous waste.

Battery Collection in Action Case Study: The Morongo Band’s Battery Program

Learn the type of management tools you can use for assessment is sustainable electronics.

Product Resource Guides for the Comprehensive Procurement Guideline (CPG) Program

EPA's published productrResource guides for the Comprehensive Procurement Guideline (CPG) program

Study on Increasing the Usage of Recovered Mineral Components in Federally Funded Projects Involving Procurement of Cement or Concrete

The Study on Increasing the Usage of Recovered Mineral Components

Supporting Analyses for the Recovered Materials Advisory Notice (RMAN) for Items Designated in the Comprehensive Procurement Guideline (CPG)

The basis for the recommendations of the EPA in its RMAN.

Report on Availability of Printing and Writing Papers Listed in the Comprehensive Procurement Guidelines Paper Recovered Materials Advisory Notice (RMAN)

Goals for Agencies that in agency acquisitions of goods and services use paper of at least 30 percent post-consumer fiber content.

Guidance on Materials Quantities for Mixtures and Specifications for Flowable Fill Under the Comprehensive Procurement Guideline Program

Guidance on materials quantities for mixtures - specifications, test methods, and practices

Frequent Questions about EPA's Risk Assessment of Spent Foundry Sands in Soil Related Applications

This page is a frequent questions resource for EPA's Spent Foundry Sands Risk Assessment

Forum on Life-Cycle Approaches to Sustainably Manage Materials in Building and Infrastructure Projects

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and its partners convened a two-and-a-half-day Forum on Life Cycle Approaches to Sustainably Manage Materials in Building and Infrastructure Projects (the Forum) on January 30 – February 1, 2018.