United States	Office of Pollution Prevention	October 1990
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the Key to Prevention
Editor's Corner
Local Governments Hold
Gerald F. Kotas
Director, Pollution Prevention
Division, U.S. EPA
As head of EPA's program to prevent
pollution, I have continually been impressed by
the initiative and innovation shown by local
governments across the country. True, for many
local governments, pollution prevention is still
considered a luxury, at the bottom of a long list
of pressing fiscal and environmental problems.
But a growing number of municipalities and
counties are realizing the benefits of prevention
and the key role that they can play in
implementing such an approach.
One prime example is in facility planning
for publicly owned treatment works
(POTW's). Many municipalities face aging
plants, a growth in the demand for services
from residences and industry, and
increasingly active community involvement in
the design and siting of facilities.
A preventive approach is particularly
useful when implemented at an early stage in
planning. Whether a community is planning
for increases in future capacity or for
investment in new facilities, preventive
measures can have dramatic effects on costs
and capacity considerations. Such measures
would involve a range of water conservation
provisions and reduced toxic loadings from
industry and residences.
In this issue, we are pleased to highlight a
few of the varied initiatives local
government have developed to tackle their
environmental agendas.
Portland's Polystyrene Foam Ban
Earl Blumenauer
Commissioner for Environmental
Services, Portland, Oregon
Portland has received international
attention for banning polystyrene foam
products. Beginning January 1990, the City
prohibited a total of 2,200 restaurants and
retail food vendors from serving prepared
food in foam food containers.
These products are used for five minutes
and they last forever as litter, or in our
landfills. The foam waste generated by one
major fast-food chain alone would fill one of
the World Trade Center towers in New York
City each week. This epitomizes the problems
associated with our "throw away society."
The City's decision was made after months
of research and input from industry represen-
tatives, concerned citizens, restaurateurs, and
environmental groups. Industry representa-
tives requested the City Council not issue a
ban, but support polystyrene foam recycling
programs.
The City was convinced that the ban of
certain polystyrene foam products was
appropriate. Local plastic recycling pro-
grams were immature and of limited
effectiveness. American cities face reduc-
tions in landfill capacity, concerns about
garbage incineration, threats from toxic
waste, and pollution generated by product
manufacture. Portland's ban, together with
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Pollution Prevention News - 2
October 1990
Local Governments & EPA Region 9
Cooperate to Prevent Pollution
Elizabeth Cameron
EPA Region 9
Pollution Prevention Program
In 1986, Contra Costa County,
California generated over 400,000
tons of hazardous waste. A study
conducted by the County's Commu-
nity Development Department and
Health Services Department esti-
mated that this San Francisco Bay
county could reduce its waste
generation by 40 percent by the year
2000 through an effective hazardous
waste minimization program and the
cooperation of industry and the
public.
One of the first projects in the
program, jointly sponsored by the
County and EPA Region 9, was to
provide hazardous waste manage-
ment and minimization information
for the auto repair and auto body
industries. Multi-media workshops
were held in conjunction with
Alameda County that brought
together speakers from the State,
sanitation districts, the Air Board,
EPA, and the County.
The County and EPA are also
working with large quantity genera-
tors which produced approximately
80% of the County's hazardous waste
in 1986. Contra Costa and EPA have
engaged the cooperation of the
largest generators in the County to
ensure that each facility has an
effective waste minimization plan.
Survey information submitted by
these facilities is being reviewed to
determine progress towards the
County's 40% waste reduction goal.
To help Contra Costa staff develop
their own expertise, Region 9 is
funding a two-day Waste Minimiza-
tion Assessment Training course,
available to Contra Costa and other
Bay area governments this fall.
Participants will learn to conduct
hazardous waste minimization
opportunity assessments at small and
medium generators. After completing
the course, County staff will conduct
assessments at selected facilities.
Region 9 participation in the
Contra Costa County program has
benefited the County program and
allowed increased cooperation
between EPA, the state, and local
governments in promoting pollution
prevention. As a successful first year
comes to a close, Contra Costa and
Region 9 are key players in organiz-
ing a hazardous waste minimization
round table for local governments in
California, scheduled for this falL
Action plans developed at the
conference will be used to guide
hazardous waste minimization
activities in Contra Costa and
throughout California over the next
five years.
For more information on these and
other activities in the Contra Costa
Hazardous Waste Minimization
Program, contact Gina Gargano,
Waste Minimization Coordinator, at
415-646-2286.
Portland from page 1
efforts to deal with plastic in the waste
stream, encourages different ways of
thinking about solid waste and single
use packaging.
After resolution of an unsuccessful
attempt on the part of certain food
vendors to overturn the ban, things are
going smoothly. Restaurants have
switched to permanent ware or alterna-
tive products with little difficulty. Some
85% of Portland residents surveyed
support this city law. Most non-profit
food vendors in the City have voluntar-
ily discontinued use of polystyrene
foam products in response to citizen
concern.
The world's only "styro cop" investi-
gates complaints from citizens regarding
potential violations. As of August 1990,
180 notices of possible violation have
been mailed and 160 of those sites have
been investigated.
Oregon cares for its environment and
is doing something about it. Leading the
Local California
Group Offers
Practical Guides
Just before Earth Day this year, the
900 members of the U.S. Conference of
Mayors each received a copy of an
uncommonly helpful little publication,
"Model Ordinances for Environmental
Protection," published by the the Local
Government Commission out of Sacra-
mento, California.
The guide contains concise summa-
ries of environmental issues in five
areas: solid waste, toxic contamination,
automobile use, ozone layer destruction,
and energy use. For each issue, the
guide explains how local governments
can improve the situation and provides
copies of actual ordinances that local
governments have passed to address the
issue.
This practical guide is just one of
several resource publications of the
Local Government Commission. The
independent, non-profit group, now in
its 11th year, also produces a bimonthly
newsletter called "Waste Minimization
Update" that reports on the activities of
local pollution prevention programs and
provides legislative updates.
"We aim to keep local governments
from having to reinvent the wheel,"
explains Tony Eulo, the group's policy
director. "We work with elected officials
who are committed to implementing
innovative policies. Elected officials don't
have time to read intensive documents;
we provide the basics of what they need
to know, and information as to where
they can find out more."
continued on page 3
way with the "bottle bill" and a ban on
aerosol products using chlorofluorocar-
bons, we haven't been shy about taking
what some would call drastic initiatives.
Our bottle bill is responsible for the
return of 90% of glass, aluminum, and
plastic deposit containers in Oregon.
In 18 years as an elected official, I
have been involved in a variety of
environmental issues. All of these issues
have been difficult and controversial. No
meaningful environmental legislation
was ever adopted by acclamation.

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October 1990
3 - Pollution Prevention News
South Coast's Ambitious Air Quality
Plan Takes Aim at L.A. Smog
Local Commission from page 2
One of the strongest comprehensive
local plans for improving air quality is
found in the region acknowledged to
have the worst air quality in the nation:
Los Angeles and its environs.
Last year, the area's local air pollu-
tion authority, the South Coast Air
Quality Management District
(SCAQMD), adopted a plan to bring the
region's air quality in line with federal
standards by the year 2007. The plan
outlines more than 150 measures to
reduce emissions from virtually all
sources of air pollution using a three-
tiered approach that is estimated to cost
$2.62 billion a year.
The plan's Tier I controls are those
that can be adopted over the next five
years using currently available technol-
ogy and legal authority, such as tighter
tailpipe standards for new vehicles,
bans on drive-through facilities, the
introduction of buses that run on
methanol and other "clean" fuels,
restrictions on aerosol products and
paints, and tighter regulations on
industrial pollution. Given the area's
expected rate of population growth, the
Tier I controls are expected to bring
about compliance with federal stan-
dards for nitrogen dioxide by 1997 and
carbon monoxide by 1998.
The plan's Tier II controls either call
for demonstrated technologies that
could be made widely available in the
next 10 to 15 years, or require new
government funding or legislative
approval. These measures include
conversion of 40 percent of cars and 70
percent of trucks to clean fuels.
Target Date: 2007
The Tier III controls are those that
call for major technological and market-
ing breakthroughs, such as commercial-
izing electric vehicles and developing
pollution-free paints and solvents. Such
controls will be needed to bring the area
into compliance with federal standards
for ozone and fine particulates by 2007.
The SCAQMD plan was five years in
the making, including a 10-month public
comment period. "AQMD engaged the
Most of the group's members are
elected officials. Funding comes from
their membership dues as well as from
grants from California state agencies
and private foundations. The group
focuses most of its efforts on California,
but works with local governments
throughout the country.
And the work is showing results.
About a year ago, only one county in
California had a procurement policy for
recycled products. The commission
circulated a guide to such policies, and
now more than 80 California communities
are developing or have established them.
The LGC can be reached at 909 12 th
St., Suite 205, Sacramento, CA 95814,
Tel: 916-448-1198.
SCAQMD's successful Smoking Vehicle Progra
California's Highway Patrol to identi
public through hundreds of hearings,
public forums, workshops and meetings
with business and community groups,
city councils and editorial boards,"
explained James M. Lents, executive
officer of SCAQMD. "Through the
course of this dialogue, AQMD empha-
sized the need to clean up the air, but
also made clear it would remain flexible
and sensitive to economic concerns as
the plan is implemented."
The 1989 local plan developed by
SCAQMD had to be approved by the
California Air Resource Board (ARB),
which is also responsible for the vehicle
emissions part of the plan, and which
meshes California's 41 local district
plans into one comprehensive plan to be
presented to EPA. Both the ARB and
SCAQMD have multi-million-dollar
research budgets that allow them to stay
on the cutting edge of pollution control
technologies, noted ARB spokesman
Jerry Martin. By law, the plan must be
updated every three years to insure that
uses publicity, a toll-free hotline, and the assistance of
and issue warnings and citations to smoking vehicles.
it keeps pace with technology.
Because the region's prior plan,
released in 1982, was not strong enough
to bring air quality up to federal
standards, a court order resulting from a
lawsuit brought by environmentalists
required EPA to develop its own plan
for cleaning up the region's air. EPA's
plan, issued on July 31, includes a
proposal for assigning alternate driving
days during the winter months for
motorists with odd and even license tag
numbers.
But for now this plan is only a
backup to the SCAQMD plan, and EPA
officials hope it stays that way. "State
and local authorities have been engaged
in an extraordinary effort to address this
problem themselves, which we all hope
will render a federal plan unnecessary,"
said Daniel W. McGovern, EPA Western
regional administrative director. "It is
our hope and expectation that the state
plan will achieve its goals well in
advance of the federal plan."
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October 1990
Calendar of Events
Title
Haz. Waste Management &
Pollution Prevention Course
Sponsor
Applied Environmental
Technologies Corp.
Date/Location
Nov. 7-8/Boxborough, MA
Nov. 28-29/Pennsylvania
Dec. 12-13/Meriden, CT
Contact
Kimberly Moore
800-926-1AET
Mid-Atlantic Regional
Symposium on Recycled Paper
2nd Annual Waste Equipment
& Recycling Conf/Exhibition
Center for Earth Resources
Management Applications, Inc.
Tower Conference
Management, Inc.
Nov. 15-16
New Carroll ton, MD
Nov. 28-30
Rosemont, IL
Annette Najjar
703-941-4490
Bill Harrington
708-469-3373
America's Sea Gulf
Symposium
Municipal Sludge
Management for the 1990s
EPA Gulf of Mexico
Program
Water Pollution
Control Federation
Dec. 2-5
New Orleans, LA
Dec. 2-5
New Orleans, LA
Judy Sutterfield
800-726-GULF
Libby Strickland
703-684-2400
6th Intl. Conference on
Solid Waste Management &
Secondary Materials
Journal of Resource Mgt. &
Technology, EPA Region 3,
Univ. of Penn., Widener Univ.
Dec. 4-7
Philadelphia, PA
Ron Mirsky
215-499-4042
Environmental Education
and Training
Government Institutes, Inc.
Dec. 4-5
Arlington, VA
Grace Lee
301-251-9250
Legal Winds of Change,
an interactive videoconference for small and medium
size businesses on the impacts of the Clean Air Act
Amendments, will air November 28th from 1 to 4 P.M.
EST. Produced by PBS, EPA and the Public Television
Outreach Alliance. To participate at a PBS station, call
1-800-343-4146. To participate at a university or to act
as a host station, call 1-800-257-2578.
Crossroads: Architects & The Environment.
A symposium on Nov. 13th in Washington, D.C.
sponsored by the American Institute of Architects, will
feature keynote speaker Amory Lovins and a
discussion of ALA's plans for a reference guide on the
environmental impact of common building materials.
Contact Doug Greenwood
at 202-626-7463.
United States Environmental
Protection Agency (PM-219)
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency — Office of Pollution Prevention
Office of Environmental Engineering and Technology Demonstration
October 1990 — Edited by Myles Morse, Director of PPIC
ICPIC Broadens Global Pollution Prevention Network Through Budapest Center
The recent dramatic political changes in central and eastern
Europe are resulting in cooperative ventures among European
countries to address the many existing transboundary
environmental issues. One result was the opening of the Regional
Environmental Centerfor central and eastern Europe on September
6, 1990, in Budapest, Hungary. The Center is directed by an
international Board of Trustees, made up of government officials
from the U.S. and Europe, business leaders, environmental experts
and non-governmental organizations. Its mission is to educate,
instruct, and disseminate information. The Center will initially
target its effort on three vital areas: hurhan health impacts of
environmental degradation, energy efficiency policies to support
the reduction of pollution levels, and the encouragement of
pollution prevention over pollution control.
ICPIC was present at the opening ceremony to welcome and
instruct the invited press and dignitaries. PPIC representatives,
jocelyn Woodman and Barclay Inge were on hand to distribute
informational literature, discuss the PPIC, demonstrate the PIES,
and promote the ICPIC. Portions of the computer demonstrations
were taped by ABC News (London).

locelyn Woodman of EPA's Office of Pollution Prevention demonstrated
ICPIC/PPIC at the opening of Eastern European Environmental Center.
ICPIC Takes Center Stage at UNEP
Conference on Cleaner Production
Cleaner production and the International Cleaner Production
Information Clearinghouse (ICPIC) were the focus of an
international conference sponsored by the United Nations
Environment Programme's Industry and Environment Office
(UNEP/IEO) and the United Kingdom's Department of the
Environment, held in Canterbury, England from September 17 -
20. The conference provided the opportunity for pollution
prevention experts from 43 countries around the world to exchange
information and form a network of cleaner production expertise.
The conference also tracked the progress of UNEP's industrial
working groups, core group, and advisory committee, and set
strategies for the upcoming year.
Topics discussed included: perspectives on cleaner production;
the cleaner production network; databases and transfer of
information in the field of clean technologies; tools to promote
cleaner technologies; and cleaner products. Intensive working
group sessions covered the four industrial areas (textiles, tanneries,
solvents, and metal finishing) as well as Policy and Strategy issues,
and Information Networking.
The U.S. EPA, UNEP and the United Kingdom provided ten
computers for hands-on training of the ICPIC computer system.
The training sessions helped familiarize participants with the
Internal'~>nal C'eaner Productio
formation C at nghouse
Pictured left to right, The Honorable Lone Dybkjaer, Minister of the
Environment, Denmark; Baroness Blatch, Minister of the Environment,
House of Lords, United Kingdom; and jaqueline Aloisi de Larderel, UNEP/
IEO.
system and how to access its international data bases. The British
Leather Confederation, France's Clean Technology and Waste
Department, and the Indian Institute of Technology together
committed to contributing several hundred case studies to ICPIC
Continues on page 4, see UNEP Conference
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Repository
From Punitive Cause to Positive Effect:
EPA Consent Orders Contain Pollution
Prevention Programs Options
Two recent Consent Orders by EPA's Chief Judicial
Officer indicate a new trend in EPA enforcement.
These landmark Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)
enforcement actions included for the first time
designated pollution prevention projects.
Ronald McCallum, EPA's Chief judicial Officer, signed a TSCA
Consent Order on january 30, 1990, whereby Sherex Polymers,
Inc. of Dublin, Ohio agreed to pay a civil penalty of $252,000 and
to institute a pollution prevention project worth at least $525,000
for failure to submit a premanufacture notice to EPA at least 90
days before manufacturing a new chemical substance, as required
by TSCA, as reported in the April "Pollution Prevention News."
The pollution prevention project involves replacing an existing
filter system on a dimer fatty acid production unit at the Lakeland,
Florida facility. The project should result in waste reduction of at
least 500,000 pounds of filter cake annually, which would have
been landfilled. It also will increase the recovery of reusable fatty
acid material by more than 250,000 pounds annually, which will
then be recycled.
The second Consent Order was signed on August 7,1990. The
3-V Chemical Corporation of Charlotte, North Carolina was
charged with violating several sections of TSCA. 3-V's penalty
was substantially reduced in part by the company's commitment
to spend at least $150,000 to complete a pollution prevention
program. The program to be implemented by 3-V is a solvent
recycling system and leak detection and repair program. This
program is intended to reduce the company's point source
emissions of 1,1,1 -trichloroethane and dichloromethane by over
50 percent. The leak detection and repair program is intended to
identify and eliminate fugitive emissions of these two substances.
Copies of these Consent Orders are available from
the PPIC. The Consent Orders include additional
details concerning the pollution prevention
technologies to be implemented by Sherex Polymers,
Inc. and 3-V. The PPIC repository will keep an ongoing
file of all Consent Orders, which contain pollution
prevention conditions. These Consent Orders are
also available on PIES. ¦
Rhode Island Receives UNEP Award for
Pollution Prevention Program
On June 5,1990, the Rhode Island Hazardous Waste Reduction
Program (HWRP) was selected as one of the 1990 Friends of the
United Nations Environment Programme (FUNEP 500). According
to an award letter from the President of FUNEP, Richard A.
Hellman, the HWRP was selected as an example to "inspire many
others to similar efforts on behalf of a cleaner, healthier planet."
The HWRP was also the recipient of the Environmental Achievement
Award given by the National Environmental Awards Council's
Searching for Success Program.
The HWRP, initiated in 1986, is a voluntary cooperative
program providing technical and financial assistance to Rhode
Island businesses. The Hazardous Waste Technology, Research,
Development, and Demonstration grants program, supported by
a $2,000,000 bond issue, provides research grants to universities,
government agencies and private organizations and demonstration
grants to cities, towns and private organizations for the commercial
demonstration of hazardous waste reduction, recycling, or
treatment technologies. To date, financial awards have been
given to ten grant recipients. Technical assistance is provided
through the performance of multi-media waste reduction
assessments, stewardship of in-plant employee involvement teams,
education, training and information clearinghouse activities. The
Continues on page 3, see Rhode Island
New Publications
Upcoming PPIC Publications
Alternative Technologies for the Minimization of
Hazardous Waste
California Department of Health Services, Toxic Substances Control
Program, Alternative Technology Division. July 1990
This 140-page report references new and innovative hazardous
waste source reduction, recycling, and treatment technologies currently
being studied by the State of California's Department of Health
Services. This document provides a compilation of waste minimization
strategies and technologies sponsored by the Department.
Source reduction strategies studied include material substitution
for metal finishers, product substitution and process modification, and
recycling opportunities for solvent waste minimization. Strategies for
recycling and resource recovery of ethylene glycol and used oil also are
included.
PPIC Vital Statistics
Holdings:

Calls:

Repository
1,060
PIES
4,299
Case Studies
451
PPIC Technical Support Line
420
Video Library
10
RCRA/Superfund Hotline
550
State Legislative

SBO Hotline
198
Summaries (41 States) 353
EPA ORD and PPO Offices
1,127
Repository Adds UNEP Collection
PPIC hasacquired all of the documents listed on the UNEP bibliography
distributed by the Industry and Environment Office of UNEP. This
collection of "cleaner production" materials is divided into eight groups,
which include industry overviews, technical reviews, technical report
series, proceedings, manuals, guidelines, information transfer, and the
Industry and Environment Quarterly Review. The collection includes
such titles as, "Environmental Aspects of the Direct Reduction Route to
Steel Making - A Technical Review" and "Pollution Abatement and
Control Technology Publication for the Pulp and Paper Industry." All
documents will be abstracted and available on the PIES and ICPIC data
bases in the near future.
These documents will also soon be available through inter-library
loan from the EPA Main Library or may be ordered electronically from
NTIS. International users may wish to order these documents directly
from the UNEP/IEO office at the following address:
Tour Mirabeau, 39-43, quai Andre Citroen, 75739 Paris Cedex 15 - FRANCE
PPIC Hotline Services
To access PPIC information by phone, call:
RCRA/Superfund Hotline	(800) 424-9344
Small Business Ombudsman
(SBO) Hotline	(800) 368-5888
PPIC Technical Assistance (703) 821-4800
Write to PPIC at:
8400 Westpark Drive
McLean, VA 22102
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Pollution Prevention Information Exchange System (PIES)
International Cleaner
Production Programs
Demonstrate Industry Progress
Through the efforts of UNEP/IEO to
compilea hard copy International Program
Directory, program descriptions for a
number of foreign countries are now
availableon the PIES. To date, 18 countries
are represented in the new PIES Program
Summary database, and efforts are
underway to include more. Pollution
Prevention or cleaner production is a way
of life in many western European countries,
where landfill space is scarce and pollution
density high.
In France, the Ministry of Environment
has prepared a catalogue of clean
technology used in French industry. This
catalogue, which has been sent to
approximately 5,000 industrial
manufacturers, shows technical and
economic performance of over one
hundred endeavors. The catalogue is kept
current and contains technical file cards
that are designed to facilitate the transfer
of technology. In addition, a file of about
1000 cases of cleaner production
technologies is available in database form
to government offices.
Finland's Ministry of Environment
coordinates international cooperation in
low and non-waste technology (LNWT).
The Ministry also oversees a working group
of government, university, research and
industrial representatives. This group was
established to act as a liaison for low and
non-waste technology, to spread pollution
prevention information, and to promote
industrial applications.
In Germany, the research and
development capability that is needed to
develop LNWT exists primarily in the
domain of the large corporations and
firms. To avail small firms with access to
improved product design and
technologies, "Waste Management
Services" (WMS) were founded in 1988
under regional environmental authorities.
These WMS were initially established to
promote the exchange of data on wastes
and to facilitate reuse and recycling. They
have now evolved into centers for
coordination of technical and scientific
assistance to aid in the implementation of
LNWT. The cooperation between local
firms, government institutions and
universities on a contract basis is proving
to be a fast and effective means of
information and technology transfer. ¦



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Corporations Taking Initiatives
In Pollution Prevention
Many U.S. companies are
implementing pollution prevention
measures to reap economic and
environmental benefits. The new
Corporate Program Summary database
on PIES includes summaries for 11 U.S.
companies, and will continue to be
expanded as information on additional
companies becomes available.
The 3M Company initiated its Pollution
Prevention Pays (3P) program in 1975,
and has since achieved impressive
reductions in manufacturing emissions
and solid waste pollutants. With a goal of
reducing manufacturing emissions by
90% by the year 2000, and a 70%
reduction in emissions by 1983, the 3P
program has saved the company nearly
$500 million. Solid waste pollutants,
both hazardous and nonhazardous, have
been reduced by 535,000 tons.
At Chevron, eliminating unnecessary
waste generation is now corporate policy.
Under the SMART (Save Money And
Reduce Toxics) program, managers are
expected to integrate waste management
into their normal business plans. A 28
member coordinating committee of
environmental specialists and mid-level
managers set a five year goal of 65%
hazardous waste reduction. In the first
year alone, the company reduced the
quantity of hazardous waste generated
by 53%, and saved $3.8 million in disposal
costs.
Polaroid Corporation launched its Toxic
Use and Waste Reduction (TUWR)
program in 1987, with a principal goal of
reducing total wastes by 50% by the early
1990s. As a performance-measurement
tool, TUWR employs a system of
scorekeeping by each division and the
company as a whole. Scores incorporate
waste-per-unit factors as well as a factor
for reduction of the most toxic materials.
In addition, divisions receive more credit
for using waste disposal methods that
have minimal adverse environmental
impact. The TUWR program has met with
much success, as illustrated by a number
of case studies available on PIES. ¦
Pollution Prevention Program
at Purdue University
Purdue University's Environmental
Management and Education Program
(EMEP) is funded by two EPA grants: a
Source Reduction and Recycling Technical
Assistance (SRRTA) grant awarded to the
Indiana Department of Environmental
Management (IDEM), and a Pollution
Prevention Incentives for States grant to
implement the Indiana Point Source
Pollution Prevention Program for
Agricultural Industries.
EMEP's Technical Assistance Program
provides on-site multi-media waste
minimization opportunity assessments,
and sponsors conferences, workshops,
seminars and teleconferences throughout
the state to interact with and address
concerns of small, medium and large
businesses. EMEP also administers the
Indiana Waste Exchange, an information
clearinghouse sponsored by IDEM that
provides information on available
publications and links waste generators
with potential "waste" users. The
clearinghouse also publishes a bi-monthly
catalog which describes waste materials
available for reuse or recycling, and contact
information.
As part of its outreach program, EMEP
joined forces with PPIC to create a Purdue
Mini-Exchange on PIES. The Purdue Mini-
Exchange has a message center, bulletins,
and the Indiana Waste Exchange Catalog.
Other databases will be added in the
future. EMEP established a toll free number
(800-658-8938) to provide all Indiana
users with free access to PIES. ¦
Rhode Island (cont.)
Rhode Island Department of Economic
Development and a number of state and
national trade associations also play an
important role in Rhode Island's efforts to
eliminate or reduce pollution at its source.
HWRP actively uses PIES to support its
technical and document dissemination
activities. Callers to HWRP are provided
with fact sheets and technical information
based on searches made on PIES and
WRAS. As PIES and the WRAS system are
fully linked, HWRP will provide input and
quality control for the unified data base as
part of a pollution prevention data
collection network. ¦
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Networking and Outreach Efforts
DOE is "WIN"ning The Pollution
Prevention Battle
In September 1988 the U.S. Department of Energy
(DOE) established a pollution prevention policy to
formalize its commitment to reduce and/or eliminate
hazardous, transuranic, and mixed wastes. To
coordinate technology transfer and information
exchange in this area, DOE created the Hazardous
Waste Remedial Actions Program (HAZWRAP) support office.
One technology transfer mechanism of this office is the Waste
Information Network (WIN), designed to communicate
throughout DOE individual facility waste management, permit,
and pollution prevention progress.
The WIN is a DOE network functioning as an information tool
to support environmental restoration and waste management
activities, including pollution prevention. Its features include a
message center, bulletins, downloadable files, on-line
conferencing, spreadsheets, and a wide assortment of data bases.
One data base cluster is devoted to waste reduction/pollution
prevention, and it includes a directory of contacts, a conference
calendar, and abstracts of journals, news items, and other
documents.
Although originally designed for use within the DOE complex,
discussions are currently underway between the PPIC and
HAZWRAP to establish linkages between the WIN and the PIES. At
the present time an active information sharing program is being
conducted to transfer information between DOE and PPIC. For
more information about WIN, contact Chuck Estes at Martin
Marietta Energy Systems, HAZWRAP, P.O. Box 2003, MS-7606,
Oak Ridge, TN 37831-7606, (615) 435-3164. ¦
Nearly 100 New Users Log on to PIES During
EPA/IACT Conference
In June 1990, just after the last issue of the User Bulletin went
to press, PPIC conducted hands on training during the International
Association of Clean Technologies (IACT) conference at the Omni
Shoreham Hot'1 in Washington, DC. Ten phone lines and per-
sonal compute were installed especially forthe training effort. In
this way, new users logged on to PIES while existing users asked
questions and learned about new features on the system. Many
new users represented international organizations throughout
Europe, Scandinavia, South America, Canada, and Africa. ¦
PPIC Training and Poster Session - EPA/IACT International Cleaner
Technology Conference - Washington, D.C.
Research Mini-Exchange
Underway
EPA research programs such as WRITE, WREAFs,
and clean technologies research projects will be
featured on the PIES Research Mini-Exchange. PPIC
sent out more than 100 letters requesting pollution
prevention research information from universities,
U.S. and international governmental organizations,
labs and research centers, public interest groups, policy research
centers and industry and trade associations during August.
Recipients were asked to send research program descriptions,
funding information, and project summaries for use in developing
the Research Mini-Exchange. PPIC will use these responses, as
well as those received in reponse to the call for information we
posted in the last Bulletin, to continue expanding the Research
Mini-Exchange. This portion of PIES will include program
summaries, project abstracts (similar to case studies) a message
center and bulletins. Keyword search capabilities will also be
developed. ¦
NEWMOA Sends Out Mass Mailing for Contact
List on Region 1 Mini-Exchange
More than 400 questionnaires were distributed by the New
England Waste Management Officials Association (NEWMOA)
requesting information for the Region 1 Mini-Exchange pollution
prevention contact list. Responses will be used to develop a
database on PIES to provide pollution prevention contacts in the
Northeast. Users will be able to search the file by SIC code, area
of expertise and geographic location. Contact Terri Goldberg of
NEWMOA,at (617) 367-8558 or the PPIC for more information.¦
UNEP Conference (cont.)
over the next two years. Each of the industrial working groups
committed to supporting quality control for the case studies
being added to the system.
n
Coals defined during the conference included increasing the
ICPIC user network, networking data sets from other countries,
linking ICPIC to
additional trade
associations, and
exploring an ap-
proach to facilitate
transfer of infor-
mation to third
world countries. ¦
UNEP Cleaner
Production
Conference—
Representatives
from 43 nations
were trained in the
use of PIES and
ICPIC.
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