United States Office of Pollution EP V742/F 98'009
Environmental Protection Aeencv Prevention and Toxics Fall 1998
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PREVENTION
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GENERAL
PROGRAMS & POLICIES
EPA/742/D-97/001 Draft Study of Industry Motivation for Pollution
Prevention
(103pp) April 1997
This study by the Pollution Prevention Policy Staff of the U. S.
EPA has three objectives: (1) to improve'understanding by federal
agencies of whether and how environmental issues influence core
business decisions in order to understand how various factors,
including public policy, motivate P2 in industry; (2) to improve
the understanding of these factors by interested stakeholders in
^government and the private sector; and (3) to engage in a debate
that relies on the best factual information available, while
seeking to improve the quality of that information and its
interpretation.
DESIGN FOR THE ENVIRONMENT
GENERAL
EPA/744/P-98/004 Environmental Management Systems Bulletin #1:
Using Design for the Environment Concepts in Your
EMS
(6pp) July 1998
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(7pp)• June 1998
This publication contains instructions for nominating green
chemistry technologies for the 1999 Presidential Green Chemistry
Challenge Awards Program. It describes what types of
technologies are eligible for the awards and who is eligible .to
participate.
URL: www.epa.gov/opptintr/dfe/greenchem/•
PRINTED WIRING BOARDS
EPA/744/R-98/003 Printed Wiring Board Pollution Prevention and
Control Technology: Analysis of Updated Survey
Results
(143pp) August 1998
This document analyzes the results of a 1997 survey of pollution
prevention, and control technologies used by printed wiring board
manufacturers, as well as information provided by technology
vendors and obtained through a literature search.
URL: www.epa.gov/oppt intr/dfe/pwb/pwb.html
EPA/744/R-98/D04a Printed Wiring Board Cleaner Technologies
Substitutes Assessment: Making Holes Conductive:
Volume 1
405pp) September 1998
EPA/744/R-98/OQ4b Printed Wiring Board Cleaner Technologies.
Substitutes Assessment: Making Holes Conductive:
Volume 2
(410pp) September 1998
Volume 1 presents a detailed technical analysis of the
comparative risk, performance, cost, and natural resource use for
technologies that can perform the making holes conductive
function during printed wiring board manufacturing. Includes the
standard electroless copper process and six formaldehyde-free
alternatives. Volume 2 contains the appendices cited in Volume
1, including raw data tables.
URL: www.epa.gov/opptintr/dfe/pwb/pwb.html
EPA/744/R-98/002 Alternative Technologies for Making Holes
Conductive: Cleaner Technologies, for Printed
Wiring Board Manufacturers
(44pp) September 1998
This document summarizes the evaluation of six formaldehyde-free
alternatives to .the standard electroless copper process for
performing the making holes conductive function during the
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manufacture of printed wiring boards.
URL: www.epa.govjopptintrjdfejpwbjpwb.html
-ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTING
EPA/742/R-98/00S . Searching for the Profit in Pollution Prevention:
Case Studies in the Corporate Evaluation of
Environmental Opportunities
(59pp) April 1998
This is a study of decision making behavior with respect to
pollution prevention investments within three large chemical
manufacturing organizations: Dow, Monsanto, and Dupont.
URL:. www.epa'$ovjopptintrjacctg!paper2b.pdf
www.epa.govjopptintrjacctgjpaper2b.htm
EPA/742/B-98/004 Environmental Accounting Products
the U.S; Environmental Protection
(6pp) August 1998
This is an updated distribution listing for. Environmental
Accounting documents available from the DfE Accounting Project.
URL: www.epa.govjopptintrjacctgjpdfjppic.pdf
Available from
Agency (EPA)
ENVIRONMENTALLY PREFERABLE PURCHASING
EPA/742/R-98/002 Green Spending: A Case Study of Massachusetts'
Environmental Purchasing Program
,(16pp) April 1998
This State government case study documents how the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts increased its environmentally preferable
purchasing efforts from $2 million to $21 million per year. The
case study includes the history of Massachusetts' environmentally
preferable purchasing efforts, and an overview of the
Commonwealth's program. The case study also describes how
Massachusetts evaluates attributes of the products it buys.
URL: www.epa.govjopptintrjeppj . . .
EPA/742/F-98/019 EPP Update #3
. (12pp) September 1998
.This document provides an update on the projects and activities
of the ~nvironmentally Preferable Purchasing program.
URt: www.epa.govjopptintrjeppl
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POLLUTION PREVENTION INCENTIVES FOR STATES
GRANT PRODUCTS
Metals
EPA/742/B-98/005 Pollution Prevention in Metal Painting and Coating
Operations: A Manual for Technical Assistance
Providers
(159pp) April 1.998
The Northeast Waste Management Officials' Association (NEWMOA)
designed this manual to provide environmental assistance staff
with a basic reference on the metal coatings process. The
purpose of the manual is to enable assistance providers to rely
on a single publication to jump start their research on pollution
prevention for companies with which they are working. The manual
is explicitly designed to be useful to assistance professionals
with experience" working with metal coating operations and those
who have never encountered this process. The U. S. EPA Pollution
Prevention Division has funded this manual as a model of a
comprehensive packet of pollution prevention (P2) information on
a single industry.
EPA/742/B-98/006 Pollution Prevention in the Primary Metals
Industry: A Manual for Pollution Prevention
Technical Assistance Providers
(35pp) April 1998
This manual for technical assistance providers comes from the
Illinois Waste Management and Research Center (WMRC). It
examines the pollution outputs and pollution prevention
opportunities for several categories of the primary metals
industry, including steel making, ferrous and non-ferrous foundry
operations, and non-ferrous metal refining.
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