Pollution Prevention at EPA

EPA promotes pollution prevention in its own facilities to demonstrate its mission to protect human health and the environment. Following are just a few of the pollution prevention strategies EPA implements in its laboratories:

• Incorporating integrated pest management (IPM), hardscape management and landscape management best practices where applicable in leases and maintenance contracts to reduce or eliminate the use of toxic and hazardous chemicals
• Reducing or eliminating hazardous chemicals used in research where feasible and developing chemical inventories and chemical reuse and recycling programs where appropriate
• Requiring reporting facilities to inventory ozone-depleting substances (ODSs), refrigerants and other chemicals
• Developing ODS management plans, which includes phasing out applicable ODSs