Learn the Issues
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How to Create and Maintain an Indoor Worm Composting Bin
web page about How to Create and Maintain a Worm Composting Bin
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Donating Food
Ways individuals can support their local communities and reduce environmental impact.
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Think Green Before You Shop
Be green! When you're out shopping, carefully choose what you buy and how much of it.
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Resources for Assessing Wasted Food
This page contains tools to measure and track the amount, type of, and the source of the food and packaging waste.
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Comprehensive Procurement Guidelines: Cement and Concrete Specifications
Specifications for Cement and Concrete Containing Fly Ash and Ground Granulated Blast Furnace Slag
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Sustainable Materials Management: U.S. State Data Measurement Sharing Program
The State Data Measurement Sharing Program (SMP) is an online reporting, information sharing, and measurement tool that allows U.S. states to share a wide range of information about waste, recycling, and composting.
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Compliance Data and Information Websites Required by the Disposal of Coal Combustion Residuals (CCR) Rule
the page contains information about the compliance data and information websites required by the disposal of ccr final rule
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Documents Related to the Decision Not to List Fourteen Solvents as Hazardous Waste
Links to federal register notices and fact sheets about the decision to not list wastes generated from the use of 14 solvents as hazardous wastes under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA).
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Frequent Questions on International Agreements on Transboundary Shipments of Waste
Answers FAQs such as How does the OECD control the shipment of hazardous waste between Member countries? Where do I find the green and amber lists of waste? Why hasn't the United States ratified the Basel Convention?
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A Guidance Manual: Waste Analysis at Facilities that Generate, Treat, Store, and Dispose of Hazardous Wastes
Discusses how a person can perform waste analyses and develop waste analysis plans (WAPs) in accordance with the federal hazardous waste regulations of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
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Brochure on Managing Hazardous Waste in Laboratories
Pamphlet containing basic information about 40 CFR Part 262, Subpart K.
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Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Training Module: Introduction to Generators
This document provides a solid foundation in the generator regulations.
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Basic Information about the Waste Reduction Model
This page provides a brief overview of EPA’s Waste Reduction Model (WARM). The page includes a description of WARM, the intended audience, and materials included in WARM.
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Market Instruments
This page outlines the major differences between Renewable Energy Certificates (REC) and Project Offsets and what types of claims each instrument allows the organization to make in regards to environmental emissions claims.
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U.S. Renewable Electricity Market
The US green energy market is broken up into two main groups: the mandatory markets including state Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) and voluntary markets, also referred to as green power markets. This page delineates this two markets.
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Solar Power Use Claims
The U.S. EPA's Green Power Partnership is a voluntary program designed to reduce the environmental impact of electricity generation by promoting renewable energy. EPA evaluates partnership metrics annually to determine progress toward programmatic goals.
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Green Power Purchasing Steps
This page provides a list of the major steps involved in buying green power
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Documents, Reports and Photographs for Exide Trust Reading AKA Former Exide Technologies Facility in Laureldale, Pennsylvania
RCRA Corrective Action Exide Trust Reading AKA Former Exide Technologies Facility in Laureldale, Pennsylvania in Reading, PA , Documents and Reports
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Guide to Purchasing Green Power
The Guide to Purchasing Green Power provides current and potential buyers of green power with information about green power purchasing.
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Build & Self Generate
These pages outline the common project development pathway from a project's conception to its completion for most on-site renewable energy projects. .