United States
Environmental Protection
Agency
Solid Waste
and Emergency Response
(5305W)
EPA530-F-97-030
December 1997
http://www.epa.gov/wastemin
Welcome to the Waste
Minimization National Plan
WASTE
MINIMIZATION
NATIONAL PLAN
Across the nation, a long-term national effort is under way to reduce the
quantity and toxicity of the most persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic
(PBT) chemicals in the nation's hazardous waste. Minimizing waste can
reduce costs and regulatory burden, show environmental leadership, and improve
human health and the environment.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) developed the Waste
Minimization National Plan with a goal of helping companies reduce the amount of
PBT chemicals in waste 50 percent by the year 2005- You can support this effort by
implementing source reduction techniques, facilitating environmentally sound recy-
cling, and preventing the transfer of chemical releases from one medium to another
(such as from water to air).
To help you learn more about how your company or facility can contribute to the
nation's waste minimization goal, EPA has prepared several informational and tech-
nical publications. Most of these brochures, guidebooks, periodicals, and other
documents are available at no charge. They also are available on the Internet at
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Reducing Tones m Our Rations Waste
Want to Learn More?
^ Waste Minimization National Plan:
Reducing Toxics in Our Nation's Waste
(EPA530-F-97-010) is a short, easy-
to-read, introductory brochure. It
provides an overview of the goals
of the Waste Minimization
National Plan, the chemical focus to
reach these goals, and the resources
available.
4 The following series of fact sheets
highlights specific companies that
have successfully reduced the pres-
ence of PBT chemicals in waste.
Each fact sheet briefly profiles the
company, its environmental
achievements, regulatory relief,
implementation process, economic
impact, and hurdles overcome.
- Waste Minimization: Increased
Profits and Productivity (Harris
Corporation) (EPA530-F-97-020)
- Waste Minimization: Reduction in
Combustible Waste (FMC
Corporation) (EPA530-F-97-021)
- Waste Minimization: Increased
Profits and Productivity (PPG
Industries) (EPA530-F-97-022)
- Waste Minimization: Reducing
Releases of Chlorinated Solvents
(Ford Motor Company) (EPA530-
F-97-023)
- Waste Minimization: Relief From
RCRA Large Quantity Generator
Status (105th Airlift Wing, New
York Air National Guard)
(EPA530-F-97-024)
- Waste Minimization: Increased
Profits and Productivity (Charles
H. Lilly Company) (EPA530-F-
97-025)
- Waste Minimization: Reducing
Paint Waste Through Efficiency
(General Motors Hamtramck
Plant) (EPA530-F-97-026)
- Waste Minimization: Increased
Profits and Productivity (HADCO
Corporation) (EPA530-F-97-009)
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Strategy Update: A Newsletter on
EPA's Hazardous Waste Minimization
and Combustion Activities (EPA530-
N-97-001) is a source for keeping
up with the latest changes and pri-
orities, significant milestones, and
opportunities for public involve-
ment associated with EPA's waste
minimization and combustion
activities.
Waste Minimization National Plan
Kit (EPA 530-F-97-028) includes the
first three items described in this fact
sheet in an attractive folder.
The Waste Minimization
Prioritization Tool, Beta Test Version
1.0 (EPA530-C-97-003) is a flexible
Windows-based software program
that ranks chemicals according to
their persistence, bioaccumulation
potential, and human and ecological
toxicity. It allows you to rank specific
chemicals based on PBT and chemi-
cal quantity.
Waste Minimization Prioritization
Tool [WMPT], Beta Test Version 1.0:
User's Guide and System
Documentation (EPA530-R-97-019)
presents step-by-step guidance on
installing and using the WMPT 1.0
system to generate outputs that will
aid in decisions about setting waste
minimization priorities. This guide-
book explains how to maneuver
within the system, how to input
data, and how to generate scores and
formatted outputs.
The Chemical-Waste Code Crosswalk
(EPA530-D-97-005) consists of a series
of tables, separated into wastewaters
and nonwastewaters. It identifies the
RCRA hazardous waste codes that
potentially contain PBT chemicals.
The Prioritized Chemical List
(EPA530-D-97-004) is a relative
ranking of 879 chemicals with data
on their persistence, bioaccumula-
tion, and toxicity. Designed as a
flexible screening tool to help identi-
fy priorities for the National Plan,
this document ranks chemicals by
their human health risk potential and
their ecological risk potential.
* Waste Minimization for Selected
Residuals in the Petroleum Refining
Industry (PB97-121-180) provides an
industry overview with process
descriptions and presents options for
source reduction practices for 29
residuals of concern, including
sludges, catalysts, and treating clays.
Both source reduction and recycling
techniques are described in this
document.
'! *International Waste Minimization
Approaches and Policies to Metal
Plating (PB96-196-753) provides an
industry overview, a description of
metal plating processes, a characteri-
zation of waste streams produced,
suggestions for waste minimization
and pollution prevention techniques,
and tools for evaluating pollution
prevention opportunities.
For Information or
Documents...
Call the RCRA Hotline at
800 424-9346 or TDD 800 553-7672.
In the Washington, DC area call
703 412-9810 or TDD 703 412-3323.
* To order these two documents, please
call NTIS at 703 487-4650.
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