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EPA Announces $48,763,746 of Clean Ports Investments in Georgia Ports Authority
EPA’s Clean Ports Program to fund 55 zero-emission port equipment, infrastructure, and planning projects across the nation to tackle climate change, reduce air pollution, promote good jobs, and advance environmental justice
EPA News Release: EPA Announces $48,763,746 of Clean Ports Investments in Georgia Ports Authority
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Frequent Questions About the Methodology for Evaluating the Beneficial Use of Industrial Non-Hazardous Secondary Materials and the Beneficial Use Compendium
Frequent Questions with regard to the Methodology for Evaluating the Beneficial Use of Industrial Non-Hazardous Secondary Materials
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Sample Calculation of the Postconsumer Fiber Content of a Corrugated Container
EPA's example to demonstrate how to calculate postconsumer fiber content in a corrugated container.
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Sustainable Materials Management (SMM) Web Academy Webinar: Electronic Waste Generation and Management and the Cost of Digitalization to the Environment
This is the landing page for the October 17, 2019, SMM Web Academy webinar on Electronic Waste Generation and Management and the Cost of Digitalization to the Environment.
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Background Document and Appendices for Proposed Comprehensive Procurement Guideline (CPG) III and Draft Recovered Materials Advisory Notice (RMAN) III
Background Document and Appendices for Proposed Comprehensive Procurement Guideline (CPG) III and Draft Recovered Materials Advisory Notice (RMAN) III
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Economic Impact Analysis for the Final Comprehensive Procurement Guideline IV
Economic impact analysis
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Federal Register Notice for the Final Rule on Guideline for Procurement of Building Insulation Products Containing Recovered Materials
EPA's guideline for Federal procurement of building insulation products containing recovered materials.
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Consolidated Recovered Materials Advisory Notices (RMANs) for the Comprehensive Procurement Guidelines (CPG)
Purchasing guidance and recommendations for recycled content levels in RMANs that accompany each CPG.
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Summary of the Affirmative Procurement Program
EPA's published product Resource guides for the Comprehensive Procurement Guideline (CPG) program
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Analysis of the Lifecycle Impacts and Potential for Avoided Impacts Associated with Single Family Homes
Learn how recovering construction and demolition materials from single-family homes and reusing them in building and road construction and other applications helps offset the environmental impacts associated with single-family homes.
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Comprehensive Procurement Guidelines (CPG) Product Designation Criteria and Process
This page describes the Comprehensive Procurement Guidelines product designation criteria and process.
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Containers and Packaging: Product-Specific Data
This web page provide numbers on the different containers and packaging products in our municipal solid waste. These include containers of all types, such as glass, steel, plastic, aluminum, wood, and other types of packaging
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Documents of Veolia ES Technical Solutions, LLC in Flanders, New Jersey
Documents of Veolia ES Technical Solutions, LLC in Flanders, New Jersey
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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.
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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.
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Nondurable Goods: Product-Specific Data
This web page present EPA data on nondurable goods in our municipal solid waste. The numbers for each category cover recycling, generation, landfilling, composting, and combustion. These numbers are from 2014
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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.
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Glass: Material-Specific Data
This page describes the generation, recycling, combustion with energy recovery, and landfilling of glass materials, and explains how EPA classifies such material.
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Ferrous Metals: Material-Specific Data
This page describes the generation, recycling, combustion with energy recovery, and landfilling of ferrous metals materials, and explains how EPA classifies such material.
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Aluminum: Material-Specific Data
This page describes the generation, recycling, combustion with energy recovery, and landfilling of aluminum materials, and explains how EPA classifies such material.