During Pollution Prevention Week we urge you to continue to spread the word: think of ways to prevent pollution in your world, innovate, and do it the green way from the beginning! That's the key to saving our planet's resources and moving toward sustainability. Please join in, renew your efforts and pat yourself on the back for progress you've made. Congratulations on every step!

Learn more about EPA's P2 program. Pollution Prevention (P2) Week -- September 18 to 24, 2017 -- highlights the many efforts of EPA, its state partners, industry and citizens to prevent pollution before it begins. Eliminating the sources of pollution prevents damage from being done in the first place and it eliminates the need for costly controls and cleanup.

Our EPA blog asks: What's an ounce of prevention worth?

Another EPA blog on how "Preventing pollution begins at home."

Find out what P2 looks like in US EPA Region 8.

P2 Resources for Businesses

P2 Case Studies

25 years Preventing Pollution: a Retrospective report. Exit

News and events in Maryland’s Green Registry.Exit

Tips for companies to raise awareness during P2 week Exit

Ask a question about how P2 applies to your problem. Exit

P2 Resources you can use. Exit

What You Can Do

You can prevent pollution every day and conserve natural resources:

• Take steps to reduce your impact on climate change.
• Use safer cleaning products in your home. Find products that display the Safer Choice label available in stores now.
• More ideas for: At Home, At Work and At School.