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Construction and Demolition Debris: Material-Specific Data

This page describes the generation, recycling, combustion with energy recovery, and landfilling of Construction and Demolition (C&D) materials, and explains how EPA classifies such material.

Durable Goods: Product-Specific Data

This web page present EPA data on durable goods in our municipal solid waste. The numbers for each category cover recycling, generation, landfilling, composting, and combustion. These numbers are from 1960 to 2017.

EPA in Maryland

Portal for news and information about EPA's efforts in Maryland and MD environmental conditions.

Paper and Paperboard: Material-Specific Data

This page describes the generation, recycling, combustion with energy recovery, and landfilling of paper and paperboard materials, and explains how EPA classifies such material.

Methodology: EPA's Facts and Figures on Materials, Waste and Recycling

This page contains the methodology used to provide context and background on its statistics on materials, wastes and recycling in America.

Circular Economy

The America Recycles microsite will be a single place where businesses, organizations, and federal, state, tribal and local government officials can find information about EPA and our partners’ work on furthering the U.S. recycling system.

Underground Storage Tanks Program in Indian Country

EPA's Office of Underground Storage Tanks, in partnership with EPA's regional offices, implements the underground storage tanks (UST) program in Indian country.

Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling Grants for Tribes and Intertribal Consortia

Details for the Grants for Tribes and Intertribal Consortia.

EPA in Pennsylvania

Portal for news and information about EPA's efforts in Pennsylvania and PA environmental conditions.

EPA in Virginia

Portal for news and information about EPA's efforts in Virginia and Virginia environmental conditions.

Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) in Water Bodies

Technical, scientific, policy, regulatory, statutory, guidance and research information about cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms and cyanotoxins in drinking water and water bodies.

Lead Test Kits

Resource for trained professionals to check which test kits are EPA recognized and can be used to determine if they need to follow the Renovation, Repair and Painting rule.

Superfund: National Priorities List Deletion

Learn about the EPA procedures for deletion from the National Priorities List.

2015 Safer Choice Partner of the Year Award Winners: Formulators-Product Manufacturers

Profiles of the winners of the 2015 Safer Choice Partner of the Year Awards in the Formulators or Product Manufacturers category

General Conformity Training Module I: The Basics

Module I provides an overview of the program purpose, content of the regulations, design of the program, legal requirements, and relationship to other environmental programs.

We are importers who import ethanol without denaturant, but with the intent to use it as motor fuel. When the RIN is generated, we maintain ownership of the ethanol, but we do not have custody and we do not add the denaturant. Would we include our company ID number and use the facility number of the denaturing facility (i.e. they would have to be registered)?

See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. The owner of the denaturing facility would not necessarily be a registered party under the regulations. The company and facility IDs of the importing party who owns the renewable fuel at the time a RIN is generated (based on…

Last published: October 19, 2026

The regulations require that if "refiners, importers, and oxygenate blenders" supplying a covered area do not complete a survey for that area, then the covered area would be deemed to have failed. Would the subsequent ratchet also apply to "suppliers" to

See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. Although, from a practical standpoint in the marketplace, there are "suppliers" in the sense it is used in the question, enforcement of average standards are refiner, blender, and importer-based. Therefore, as is mentioned in Survey Question 2 (above), if…

Last published: October 19, 2026