The Resource Conservation
Challenge in Action
It is more important than ever for
Americans to make sound environmental
decisions. The Resource Conservation
Challenge appeals to makers of goods, sellers
of goods, and buyers of goods to begin a bet-
ter way of doing business. It asks every-
one—businesses and consumers—to make
smarter purchasing decisions that conserve
our natural resources, save energy, and
reduce greenhouse gases.
The projects in this list are provided as a gen-
eral overview. Many cross over categories,
but we have highlighted the primary focus of
the projects.
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A program to facilitate recycling of hydrogen fuel cells and other alternative fuels as they are developed.
Aluminum In Vehicles:
An adjustment of regulatory controls to facilitate the use of aluminum in vehicle production to increase fuel efficiency and
reduce air emissions.
" America Recycles Day:;
A partnership of government business, and others to boost recycling in America through local events on November 15
every year.
Carpet Product
Stewardship:
A project to reduce waste and divert 40 percent of used carpets from landfills by working with a coalition of carpet
manufacturers, trade associations, state, and regional governments.
Clean Energy and Chemical
Products:
A project investigating gasification technology to determine whether this process can be used safely on certain petroleum
and other hazardous wastes.
Coal Combustion Residues:
A pilot project to work with industry to demonstrate and promote a variety of possible beneficial uses of coal residues, such
as aggregate cement substitutes.
Consumer Education
Campaigns:
Several projects designed to motivate consumers to prevent waste, recycle, and buy recycled products by using radio and
television ads.
Deconstruction Projects:
Assistance and training program to encourage deconstruction and use of reclaimed materials.
Domestic Energy Sources:
A project looking at a range of industrial byproducts that might safely be used as fuel.
Electronic Recycling
Outreach Campaign:
An educational campaign working with manufacturers, retailers, and governments to expand and publicize opportunities to
recycle and reuse computers and other electronic products.
Educational Institutions:
Projects helping colleges, universities, laboratories, and schools to improve reuse, recycling, and chemical management.
Electronics Product
Stewardship:
Working with the National Electronics Product Stewardship Initiative (NEPSI) to increase the collection, reuse, and recycling
of used computers and electronic equipment.
Stewardship
cing Pr
rdship:
A program that encourages product stewardship through shared responsibility among manufacturers, retailers, governments,
and consumers to reduce the life-cycle impacts of products, such as automotive products or beverage containers.
Fluorescent Lamps:
A cooperative outreach program that supports and promotes waste reduction and recycling, and targets commercial and
industrial lamp users.
Foundry Sands;
A project to create guidance on reusing foundry sands instead of mined materials in highway construction and other projects;
Federal Green Product
Trsds Fair:
A trade fair to unite the federal procurement community and vendors to promote the acquisition of recycled content, environ-
mentally preferable, and biobased products.
Greener Parks:
A collaborative project with the National Park Service to reduce solid and hazardous waste in 89 national parks.
Hazardous Waste Permits:
A project to standardize and simplify the permitting process for energy-related and hazardous waste recycling facilities, and
for innovative businesses that reduce waste.
Health Services:
Projects working with hospitals, biotech firms, and medical facilities to promote product stewardship, reduce waste and
bioaccumulative chemicals, and increase product reuse and recycling.
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Landfill Gas in Food Production:
Lead Shot and Bullets:
Making a Difference:
Making Electricity:
Markets for Compost:
Metal-Finishing:
National Waste Minimization
Partnership:
Nationwide Electronics
Recycling:
Native American Awareness:
New Challenge Program
on Product Stewardship:
Paper Products:
Plastic Railroad Ties:
Pollution Prevention:
Recycling Marketplace:
Recycling Cathode Ray Tubes
(CRTs):
Recycling at Shopping Malls:
Reusing Construction
Materials:
Reusing Waste Materials:
Revamping Regulations:
Tribal Waste Reduction;
Urban African-American
Consumers:
Video Arcades:
Waste-to-Energy:
WasteWise Program:
Working Smarter:
A project to examine landfill gas as a fuel source.
An environmental stewardship project working with national organizations to recover and recycle lead shot from shooting
ranges.
An educational campaign to motivate teens to conserve resources, and to reduce, reuse, and recycle.
A project examining "co-firing" of municipal solid waste as an option to supplement coal in electricity production.
A program that maps generators and composters to encourage compost facilities and markets.
A project to recover waste metals to reduce the demand for new materials from mining; a pilot project to help metal finishers
manage chemicals; and a training project to reduce waste.
A recognition partnership of businesses and organizations that voluntarily set and achieve their own hazardous waste
reduction goals.
Regional projects exploring, evaluating, and expanding reuse and recycling of electronic waste.
A strategy to increase waste reduction, recycling, and neighborhood revitalization on tribal lands.
A collaborative project that challenges businesses to incorporate clean manufacturing, toxics reduction, recycling, and reuse
into their processes, starting with pilot projects in design of electronics.
A project to use recycled/recovered paper to create molded paper products, such as egg cartons and packing material.
A project to evaluate greenhouse gas savings from using recycled plastic, rather than chemically treated wood as ties.
Projects to develop on site pollution prevention training for all employees to prevent pollution.
An experimental project in Alameda County, California, investigating whether keeping recycling companies close to local
recovery facilities and markets will reduce costs and increase recycling.
A project to adjust waste management controls to promote CRT glass recycling and reduce lead in the environment.
A project to motivate retailers, mall managers, and consumers to prevent waste, recycle, and buy recycled products
at shopping malls.
A collaborative project working to salvage and divert material from home deconstruction.
A program designed for one company's waste to become another company's raw material.
A project to evaluate revising current hazardous waste regulations to promote safe reuse and recycling, such as using
hazardous waste materials as micronutrients in fertilizers.
A joint venture with the Department of Housing and Urban Development to provide training on waste prevention and energy
efficiency in operations such as tribal schools, hotels/casinos, and health care facilities.
A multimedia educational campaign on environmental issues of concern to African-American communities, such as recycling,
lead paint, and illegal tire dumping.
A project to incorporate "reduce, reuse, and recycling" messages into video arcade games.
A pilot project is testing a gasification system to produce synthetic natural gas from solid and industrial waste.
A partnership of more than 1,200 businesses, governments, and institutions to reduce municipal solid waste. EPA provides
technical assistance and recognition.
Several programs helping businesses design and use resource-efficient and waste reduction techniques, as well as less
toxic processes.
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