United States
Environmental Protection
Agency
Office of Pollution
Prevention and Toxics
Washington, DC 20460
May 1992
oEPA Pollution
Prevention
News
Special Issue:
Winners of
the Administrator's
Awards for Pollution
Prevention
2	Environmental,
Community
Organizations
3	Local Government
4	Small Business
5	Large Business
6	State Government
Administrator's Awards for Pollution
Prevention Go to 17 Organizations
Seventeen organizations were the
winners in the second annual Administra-
tor's Awards program, announced on Earth
Day, April 22. The awards program focused
on outstanding achievements in pollution
prevention. Over 840 applications were
received and examined by EPA's Regional
Offices; 225 regional semi-finalists were
reviewed by an expert paneled convened by
Renew America, which selected 34 finalists.
"We are delighted with the tremendous
response to this year's awards program and
with the high quality of pollution preven-
tion projects which made the selection of
our winners a very difficult task," noted
Administrator Bill Reilly. "In fact, all of
the finalists were outstanding."
Awards were given in six categories:
environmental, commu-
nity, non-profit and trade
organizations; large and
small business; educa-
tional institutions, and
federal, state, and local
governments. The
winners were honored in
a ceremony on May 13 in
Washington, D.C.
Pollution Prevention
News is pleased to devote
the May issue to profiles
of the 17 winners of the
Administrator's Awards.
Congratulations to
winners, finalists, and all
applicants!
Pollution
Prevention
Awards

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EPA and the U.S. Department of Agricul-
ture (USDA) signed a Memorandum of
Agreement on April 14 to implement in-
creased pollution prevention in the agricul-
tural sector. The agreement puts into place
a plan to address agriculturally related
environmental problems.
The agreement outlines four basic strate-
gies to achieve environmental results: (1)
implementation of a nationwide pollution
prevention program to minimize agri-
culturally related pollution and environmen-
tal risks; (2) establishment of a coordinated
research, technology development, and
technology transfer system that supports
production practices that protect and
enhance the environment; (3) implementa-
tion of a comprehensive marketing strategy
to promote voluntary pollution prevention;
and (4) strengthening of the working rela-
tionship between EPA and USDA in order to
provide a unified force for positive change in
the area of agricultural pollution prevention.
A Task Force is charged with developing
an implementation plan by October 1. For
more information, contact Harry Wells, EPA,
202-260-4472, or Barbara Osgood, USDA,
202-720-0759.
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Environmental and Community Organizations
Alaska Center
for the Environment:
Green Star Program
The Green Star Program, a collabora-
tion of the Anchorage Chamber of
Commerce, the Alaska Center for the
Environment and Alaska's Department
of Environmental Conservation, has
kicked off a pollution prevention
program that so far has reached 75
Anchorage businesses; program orga-
nizers plan to reach 800 area businesses
by 1994.
Businesses and other organizations
that enroll in the voluntary Green Star
Program are given a booklet describing
18 energy conservation and waste
reduction standards. A group must
fulfill at least 12 of the 18 standards to
achieve the Green Star award. The
standards include conducting an annual
waste reduction assessment and encour-
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aging at least one other business to
enroll in the program. To date, nine
Alaska businesses have been awarded
the Green Star award.
Other aspects of the Green Star
Program include pollution prevention
tips that are published in the local
newspaper, offering ideas on topics
such as public transportation, efficient
heating and reusable office supplies.
Green Star also holds monthly training
workshops, each featuring a local
speaker discussing topic such as energy
efficient lighting and buying Alaskan
products made from recycled materials.
While the Green Star Program now
reaches businesses and industries,
organizers plan to expand their efforts
to schools, religious organizations,
Native American groups and govern-
mental agencies.
North Carolina Alternative Energy Corp:
Energy Efficient Lighting for Poultry
With a lighting efficiency program
introduced before EPA's Green
Lights program went into effect, the
North Carolina Alternative Energy
Corp. (AEC) has helped North Caro-
lina farmers save 12 million kilowatt
hours per year and more than
$850,000, as well as making significant
reductions in air pollution.
Through AEC's program, Energy
Efficient Lighting for Poultry, North
Carolina poultry farmers replaced
73,000 incandescent lamps with compact
fluorescent lamps between 1986 and
1989. In field trials the project showed
that compact fluorescent lamps saved
electric costs while maintaining produc-
tivity. The savings yielded paybacks on
the cost of compact fluorescent lamps
within one or two years.
"We were fortunate to have good
support from our member utilities,
Carolina Power and Light and Duke
Power," said Phil Bisesi, AEC senior
project manager.
AEC then worked with the North
Carolina State Cooperative Extension
Service, which successfully sold the idea
Compact fluorescent lamps in an egg layer house.
to farmers. The Extension Service held
dinner meetings, where farmers received
information about the field trials and
where to buy compact florescent lamps.
The farmers also saw a videotape that
included testimonials from fellow farmers
who had participated in the field trials.
AEC now is funding research that
indicates that farmers may actually
improve poultry productivity by decreas- (
ing the amount of light used. Because
light reductions also reduce the amount of
heat generated, fowl mortality and the
environmental problems associated with
the disposal of dead birds may also be
mitigated as a result of reduced lighting.
INFORM Inc:
Chemical Hazards Prevention Program
Through its reports, testimony and
other outreach efforts, the nonprofit
organization INFORM has been promot-
ing source reduction to governments and
industry since 1982, when it launched its
Chemical Hazards Prevention Program.
INFORM's efforts include a four-year
investigation of 29 organic chemical
plants to discover what source reduction
steps actually were being taken; what
impact source reduction practices had on
total plant waste and what managerial,
economic and regulatory factors were
stimulating or impeding reduction
progress. INFORM's research, Cutting
Chemical Wastes, published in 1986,
reported the specific plant-level environ-
mental and economic benefits of prevent-
ing hazardous waste at the source.
INFORM's program provided some
of the impetus for the passage of the
Pollution Prevention Act of 1990, the
creation of the Toxics Release Inventory,
the Environmental Protection Agency's
pollution prevention program, legislation
and programs in at least six states,
initiatives by citizens' groups in more
than 12 states and growing industry
dialogue with local communities. The co-
sponsor of the Pollution Prevention Act,
Howard Wolpe, said about INFORM's
role in the legislation, "INFORM's
research on the environmental and
economic benefits of industrial source
reduction, its input during the drafting of
the bill, and its testimony at congres-
sional hearings all helped pave the way
for this victory."

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Local Government
Overlay district planners, I to r:
Dave Janik, lack Lenox,
Bruce Rosinoff, Lydia Van Hine,
and Donald Ellis.
Bourne, Plymouth, and
Wareham Planning
Boards, Mass:
Nitrogen Overlay
Protection District
Rising levels of nitrogen in Massachu-
setts' Buttermilk Bay and excessive
algae growth in some areas had citizens
of three nearby towns — Bourne,
Plymouth, and Wareham — concerned
about swimming and commercial and
recreational shellfishing. Their determi-
nation to maintain the long-term health
of the bay, which is part of the larger
Buzzards Bay, led to the formation of the
Buttermilk Bay Nitrogen Overlay
Protection District, the first nitrogen
overlay district in the nation.
The three towns worked closely with
planners from the Buzzards Bay Project,
kwhich is sponsored by EPA and the
Massachusetts Executive Office of Envi-
ronmental Affairs, to implement zoning
changes that eliminated the development
of more than 400 potential homes. The
zoning changes will eliminate more than
11,000 pounds of nitrogen per year.
Osage Municipal Utilities holds the
proud record of offering the first
municipal energy efficiency program in
the United States. With a strategy
stressing involvement from all members
of the Iowa community of 3,500, this gas
and electric utility company pioneered
many of the energy efficient measures
popular today across the country that are
making a major contribution to prevent-
ing air pollution.
Started in 1974, Osage Municipal
Utilities' program has helped the town
akeep its electric load at zero growth since
' 1976, discounting industrial growth.
Through the program, 60 percent of all
homes and businesses have received
energy checks with a hand-held scanner
(at no cost to the customer), and water
heater jackets have been installed on
To determine the amount of nitrogen
that would overextend the bay, the
project used "build-out" analysis, which
more commonly is used to determine a
community's growth potential. The
analysis involves examining the carrying
capacity of the community's infrastruc-
ture, such as roads and schools. By
figuring the mass loading rates from all
sources of nitrogen, present and future,
and comparing this with the critical mass
loading limit of the bay, planners were
able to determine the nitrogen carrying
capacity of Buttermilk Bay.
"In the long term, the only way we
can protect Buzzards Bay is if all the
towns affecting the bay work together,"
says Bourne Selectwoman Maria Oliva.
"Bourne is proud to be part of such an
effort."
most water heaters. Give-aways include
low-flow shower heads, low-flow faucet
aerators and compact fluorescent light
bulbs. Some 96 percent of users have
agreed to load management devices on
their central air conditioners, and
hundreds of trees have been planted in a
long-term strategy designed to cut air
conditioning costs.
"We have never lost our momentum,
even when others said there was no
longer an energy crisis," says Weston
Birdsall, the force behind the Osage
program. Birdsall credits the program
with not only saving energy and money,
but with becoming an important eco-
nomic development tool for the town
because industries are attracted to the
lower utility rates that are available in
Osage.
Sanitation Districts of
Orange County:
Pollution Prevention
Program
The County Sanitation Districts of
Orange County have implemented
a pollution prevention plan designed to
reduce the quantity of toxic material
discharged by industrial users of the
Orange County sewage system. Under
Orange County's program, all users are
required to provide waste reduction
plans to conserve water, investigate
products substitution, provide inven-
tory control and implement educational
activities.
Mass emission rates (rather than
concentration limits) have been promul-
gated for each permitted discharger.
Compliance is based on the results of
samples collected at each discharger s
facility and average water usage.
Permittees were required to install flow
restrictors or control valves to assure
wastewater reduction and to prevent
the companies from achieving compli-
ance by dilution.
As a result of these and other Orange
County efforts, over the last five years
industrial wastewater flow tributary to
Orange County's system has been
reduced 50 percent, and influent heavy
metals have been reduced by about 50
percent. Some 95 percent of all the metal
finishers and other federally regulated
industries have installed flow restrictors
or control valves to reduce the water
usage, or have installed basic waste
minimization equipment to reduce the
volume of hazardous wastes and waste-
water discharged to the sewage system.
Osage, Iowa, Municipal Utilities:
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Small and Large Business

Chrysler Corp:
Jefferson North Assembly Plant
Statler Tissue Co:
Hazardous Materials Minimization Program
Statler Tissue, an integrated second-
ary fiber deinking facility, has
become the lowest emitter of toxic
releases of any integrated tissue mill in
United States due to its Pollution
Prevention Program. Back in 1986, the
company instituted a chemical review
policy, which required that before any
chemical entered the facility, it had to
have a formal MSDS review and appro-
val process. From those analyses, Statler
then targeted a list of hazardous chemi-
cals for substitution or elimination.
Since implementing the policy, the
company has eliminated all chlorinated
organic solvents, low flash solvents,
fluorocarbon aerosol carriers and toxic
solvents used as parts washers,
degreasers and floor cleaners. These
include 1,1,1 trichloroethane, xylene,
toluene, MEK and naphtha based
cleaners. The solvents either were
eliminated completely or replaced with
environmentally acceptable products
such as kerosene, mineral spirits and
citrus based cleansers.
The company does not use new inks
and dyes that contain toxic or hazardous
ingredients. Release agents used on
converting equipment that employed
CFC and fluorocarbon carriers have
been replaced with mechanical aspira-
tors. Other pollution prevention efforts
at Statler include flushing all electrical
transformers and certifying them to be
PCB free, and gradually replacing all
instrumentation containing mercury
components.
of the hazardous air pollutants listed in
the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990.
"No landfill" is a key design goal at
JNAP. Some 65 percent of all parts are
now shipped to JNAP in returnable
containers. A sludge handling system at
the plant eliminates paint sludge by
producing a dry VOC-free powder.
Chrysler and Haden Corp. piloted this
new paint sludge handling system,
which has turned 5.2 million pounds of
previously landfilled wastes from one
plant into 616,000 pounds of materials
recycled into products such as roofing
materials and sealers.
Kryptonics Inc:
Mold Release Spray System
Kryptonics Inc. of Boulder,
Colorado has solved a difficult
pollution problem with ingenuity and
low-cost technology. The company
developed a method of spraying silicone
mold releases that eliminates the use of
Freon ozone-depleting solvents. As a
result, Kryptonics has reduced its use of
CFCs from more than 40,000 pounds in
1990 to zero in 1992, all the while
maintaining the quality that Freon had
provided.
Before, Kryptonics used the industry
standard, CFC/silicone solutions, for
releasing highly polished cast polyure-
thane, or high-tech plastics, products
from molds without sticking. In 1988,
the company began to test alternative
mold release systems. The process it
finally discovered involves exposing the
mold to a "cloud chamber" of silicone,
rather than spraying silicone at a mold
as was done before. Equipment based
on the technology soon will be available
to other firms and industries.
Totally eliminating CFCs will save
the company $100,000 in CFC costs in
1992 alone. Says Charles Demarest,
president of Kryptonics, "The success of
our project should excite designers,
engineers, managers, regulators,
lawmakers and others as an example [of
howl we can reduce pollution in this
country and on this planet without
always having to develop new elaborate
and expensive technologies."
The JNAP complex, located on reclaimed urban industrial land in
Detroit, Michigan.
Pollution prevention is "key to
Chrysler's industrial competitive-
ness in both domestic and international
markets," says Mark Bindbeutel,
pollution prevention manager for
Chrysler Corp. The company saw a
great opportunity to build pollution
prevention strategies and technologies
right into a facility when it designed
and built its Jefferson North Assembly
Plant (JNAP).
Among the innovations the company
incorporated into JNAP is
a leak detection capabil-
ity, installed for all
equipment located under-
ground such as piping,
wet sumps and trenches.
The design, a first in the
automotive industry,
virtually eliminates the
potential for materials to
escape into the environ-
ment, according to
company officials.
Because emissions
from typical vehicle
painting operations can account for as
much as 90 percent of an assembly
plant's environmental impact to the air,
the company has concentrated on
reducing volatile organic compounds
(VOCs) and hazardous air pollutants at
JNAP. Chrysler reformulated the
majority of its paint area and equipment
clean-up solvents to water-based mater-
ials. It also has incorporated a zero-VOC
powder anti-chip coating and formu-
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Award Winners
'IBM Corporation:
Aqueous Processes Eliminating CFCs in Disk Drive
Parts Cleaning
Located in San Jose, California, IBM's
disk drive development and manu-
facturing operation for its U.S. main-
frame computers was one of the world's
largest users of chlorofluorocarbons
(CFCs) in 1987. Five years later, IBM's
use of CFCs in San Jose has been nearly
eliminated and emissions have dropped
by 95 percent. The achievement is the
result of substituting aqueous cleaning
technology for precision cleaning of disk
drive parts.
To begin the process of CFC reduc-
tion, IBM's San Jose plant formed a
sitewide CFC elimination task force in
April 1988, which identified several
dozen CFC applications at the site. The
company then began implementing its
CFC elimination strategy: first, phase in
< kmore efficient CFC cleaners to abate
emissions; second, completely rework
all of the processes using CFCs.
Results of IBM studies showed that
water cleaning could be equal to or
better than CFC cleaning for particulate
removal from disk drive parts. IBM
worked with the Atcor Co. to design,
build and test a new aqueous disk drive
parts cleaner.
IBM San Jose calls its CFC elimina-
tion strategy "not only an environmen-
IBM Engineer Michael Carroll uses personal
computer to control flow of parts moving through a
new aqueous cleaning system.
tal issue, but also a serious technology
issue, since head, disk and head disk
assembly processes were completely
dependent on CFCs for use in cleaning
and drying disk drive parts." With the
strategy, the facility has prevented more
than 2 million pounds of emissions,
and eliminated purchases of 4.3 million
pounds of CFCs in the last three years
alone.
Mead Packaging:
VOC Reduction Program
More than 15 years ago, Mead
Packaging, a division of the Mead
Corp. that manufactures paperboard
packaging for the beverage and food
industries, adopted the philosophy,
"eliminate the generation of Volatile
Organic Compounds (VOCs) rather
than attempt to control them." The
company's work to put that philosophy
into place made it a leader in the
development of water-based inks and
coating processes.
Through its VOC Reduction Pro-
gram, Mead became the first company
in the carton converter industry to
completely switch its rotogravure
presses from petroleum solvent-based
inks to water-based inks. Because of its
innovations, Mead Packaging has
reduced its emissions of VOCs by more
than 85 percent since 1975. Other
printers now are experiencing similar
reductions with the Mead technology.
Mead recognized early on that
solvent emissions would have to be
reduced to improve air quality around
its packaging plants in Atlanta, Chicago,
and the Los Angeles, Philadelphia and
St. Louis areas. "Many said the use of
water-based inks for rotogravure
printing was impossible because of
doctor blades used in the technology,"
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Eastman Chemical Company:
Texas Eastman Pollution Prevention
Over the last 10 years, Texas
Eastman has used a variety of
energy-saving techniques to produce a
40 percent reduction in the energy
required to manufacture one pound of
materials — roughly equal to saving
3,300 barrels per day of crude oil. Over
the same period, Texas Eastman produc-
tion increased by 50 percent. Located in
Longview, Texas, the company is the
largest employer in East Texas.
A multi-faceted, sequential approach
was adopted to meet the challenge of
reducing energy consumption long-
term. First, all processes were examined
to better quantify energy usage and an
employee awareness program was
implemented. Second, engineering
personnel looked for ways to implement
known technology to improve effi-
ciency. Third, more efficient process
technology was purchased when it was
available from outside sources.
Finally, scientists developed a new
high yield process to replace an older
chemical production process that was
Electric motor replacement for low-efficiency steam
drive at Texas Eastman Division.
one of the largest and most energy
intensive processes used. All energy and
economic analyses were done on a site-
wide basis, to avoid saving energy in
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State Government
N.C. Dept. of Economic and Community
Development, Energy Division:
Energy Management Technical Assistance Program
Workshops, on-site surveys — and
participation by the operating
and maintenance workers who actually
run a company's equipment — are
behind The Energy Management
Technical Assistance Program, an
initiative of the North Carolina Depart-
ment of Economic and Community
Development. The program assists
North Carolina industry in the use of
appropriate techniques and cost effec-
tive technology to save energy, increase
efficiency, and reduce pollution.
Projected energy savings from the
workshops and the 250 surveys com-
pleted to date exceed 3,500 billion BTUs
per year.
The program includes a series of
workshops on topics such as steam
traps, boilers and preventive mainte-
nance. Workshops are aimed at the
operating and maintenance personnel
who work with the equipment on a day-
to-day basis. "Without the commitment
and involvement of knowledgeable
people in these areas, no energy conser-
vation measures can succeed," says W.
Curtis Phillips of the NC Department of
Economic and Community Develop-
ment.
To ensure broad participation in the
survey program, North Carolina's
Energy Division pays 80 percent of the
cost of the surveys, which results in a
cost to each facility of $400 or less per
survey. Surveyed facilities must send a
maintenance representative to an
appropriate workshop before being
surveyed. This way, organizers say, at
least one person at the facility is trained
in energy management techniques and
has an understanding of the recommen-
dations that may result from the survey.
Iowa Department of Natural Resources:
AgricuItural-Energy-Environmental Initiatiue
A grassroots approach to reaching
the state's farmers has contributed
to the success of the Iowa Consortium
on Agriculture and Water Quality, a
multi-organizational approach to
reducing the effects of nutrients,
pesticides, sediment and animal waste
on surface water and groundwater
quality. Because of the efforts of the
Consortium, Iowa producers report
widespread reductions in nitrogen use
since 1985, in contrast to trends else-
where in the region and in spite of
declining fertilizer prices — and all with
no decline in yields and at a cost savings
for Iowa farmers.
The Iowa Consortium has focused on
implementing known technologies
where major improvements could be
made immediately. A practical soil
nitrogen test and a plant tissue analysis
for nitrogen management have been
developed to help the Consortium
realized its goals. The Integrated Crop
Management project and other projects
have provided a network of on-farm
demonstration projects and consultative
services to help farmers enhance their
management and to profitably reduce
their use of fertilizers and pesticides.
The Iowa programs have also
included an intensive marketing and
informational component. According to
George Haliberg, supervisor of Environ-
mental Geology for the Iowa Depart-
ment of Natural Resources, success
depends in part on "a recognition that
altering agricultural management is a
sociological process as well as a techni-
cal one."
Educational Institutions
Virginia Polytechnic and State University:
Agricultural Nonpoint Source Pollution Prevention
Progress in addressing agricultural
nonpoint source pollution to the
Chesapeake Bay has been advanced by
the work of the Virginia Polytechnic
Institute and State University's Depart-
ment of Agricultural Engineering. The
Department has made contributions to
the state's Agricultural Nonpoint Source
Pollution Control Program through
several initiatives, including the devel-
opment of an extensive geographic
information system database to priori-
tize problem areas and target limited
state resources.
The Virginia Geographic Information
System, developed by the department,
has provided more than 4,000 mylar
overlays and 100 multi-county compos-
ite maps to Soil and Water Conservation
District offices to help implement the
State's agricultural nonpoint source
pollution control programs.
The department also has conducted
comprehensive, long-term monitoring
of two agricultural watersheds to
evaluate the effectiveness of best
management practices in minimizing
off-site water quality impacts. Monitor-
ing systems for the Owl Run and
Nomini Creek watersheds will provide
much-needed information on the effects
of land use on the quality of water
draining upland watersheds.

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1 tj.S. Air Force:
Fairchild Air Force Base's Comprehensive Pollution
Prevention Program
Recognized in 1990 by the Pacific
Northwest Hazardous Waste
Advisory Council and other organiza-
tions for a successful waste reduction
program, the Fairchild Air Force Base,
located some 12 miles west of Spokane,
Washington, is a model for comprehen-
sive pollution prevention planning and
implementation.
Some 6,600 people work at the
Fairchild Air Force Base which contains
all the infrastructure and workings of
both an industrial complex and a small
community, including a transportation
network, drinking water supply system,
sewage disposal, hospitals, heating/
cooling systems, schools, day care
centers — all in support of the main
purpose of the base, the flying and
maintenance of combat, combat sup-
fport, and training aircraft.
Fairchild AFB has implemented
pollution prevention programs in a
variety of areas, relying on a different
approaches such as product substitu-
tion, process change, new technologies,
and solvent reduction and recycling. For
example:
•	A solvent recycling effort, imple-
mented at 51 shops on base, has
resulted in recapture or reuse of 95
percent of the solvents used for parts
cleaning and degreasing.
•	Bead blasting technology has been
widely used at Fairchild for several
years in paint stripping operations,
eliminating the use of methylene
chloride as a paint stripping solvent.
Recycling of the spent bead blasting
media has resulted in complete
elimination of a waste stream from
this operation.
•	A biodegradable, citrus based
material was substituted for PD-680
(naphtha solvent) for removing
difficult stains, carbon build-up, and
grease from aircraft.
•	Since 1989, Fairchild has imple-
mented a freon recapture program
for building maintenance activities;
recapturing systems were recently
installed for all vehicle maintenance
on base.
•	As a first step in wetlands conserva-
tion, Fairchild AFB planning staff
cooperated with the U.S. Soil Conser-
vation Service in conducting a
complete inventory of all base
property to identify and delineate
jurisdictional wetlands.
According to Scott Whittaker,
environmental coordinator at Fairchild,
"The key to Fairchild's successful waste
reduction programs is the support of the
commanders. Without their support, a
good idea is just a good idea; with it, it
becomes a good program."
U.S. Navy:
Development and
Implementation of Unicoat
Unicoat is a new paint developed
by the the U.S. Navy Exploratory
Development Program for aircraft and
other industrial applications. With no
toxic chromate pigments, the new paint
reduces volatile organic compounds
(VOCs) and hazardous waste from the
painting process by 67 percent. At the
same time, Unicoat provides equivalent
or superior performance to the toxic
paints the Navy and Air Force have
used in the past.

Application of Unicoat to a Navy F-14 aircraft.
The traditional painting system for
aircraft consists of an epoxy primer for
adhesion and corrosion inhibition, and a
polyurethane topcoat for aesthetics,
durability and additional protection
against degradation. This two-coat
primer and topcoat paint system con-
tains high levels of VOCs and carcino-
genic chromates. Unicoat, in contrast, is
a self-priming topcoat designed to
replace the two coatings with a blend of
organic and inorganic zinc compounds
that are nontoxic.
The effort to develop Unicoat began in
October 1985, as a way to both eliminate
pollution and reduce the time and cost of
the two-coat system. The Navy Explor-
atory Development Program's objective
was accomplished using an in-house
theoretical and statistical formulation
design that included advanced polymeric
binder technology with a combination of
multi-functional corrosion-inhibiting
pigments. Unicoat is being used in Navy
and Air Force applications; efforts are
underway to transfer the technology to
the commercial airline and industrial
communities.
Mead Packaging: VOC Reduction Program
(Continued from page 5)
the company says. To prove the experts
wrong, Mead started by building on its
earlier accomplishment of developing
water-based inks for its flexographic
presses. Water varnishes were devel-
oped and put into use in the early 1980s,
md final development of water-based
inks followed shortly. The final conver-
sion of all of Mead's packaging plants to
water-based inks and varnishes was
made in December 1990.
Mead's, incinerator, formerly used to burn off
solvent vapors during ink drying, now sits idle.

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Calendar
Title
Sponsor
Date/Location
Contact
Pollution Prevention
and Dry Cleaning
U.S. EPA
May 27-28
Falls Church, VA
Ohad Jehassi
202-260-6911
Pollution Prevention
U.S. EPA
June 1-3
Woods Hole, MA
Dana Duxbury
508-470-3044
National 1PM Forun
USDA, U.S. EPA
June 17-19
Arlington, VA
ARI
301-530-7122
Pollution Prevention Regulatory
Update Course, Tech. Strategies
Government Institutes
June 24, 25
Hilton Head, SC
Terri Green
301-921-2345
U.S. Gov't. Buy Recycled
Products Trade Fair
DOD, EPA, GSA, CEQ, OMB
June 29-30
Washington, DC
Nancy Stehle
703-602-2692
Future Direction of Municipal
Sludge (Biosolids) Management
Water Environment Federation
July 29-30
Portland, OR
Nancy Blatt
703-684-2400
North Amer. Conf. on Industrial
Recycling and Waste Exchange
Government Institutes
Sept. 9-10
Syracuse, NY
Colleen Sullivan
301-921-2345
1st Annual Conf. for Southern
States on Hazardous Waste Min.
MISSTAP, DoD, EPA Regions 4, 6,
MS Dept. of Env. Quality
Sept. 22-24
Biloxi, MS
Dr. J. Carpenter
601-325-8067
Minimization & Recycling
Haz. Materials Control
Resources Institute
Sept. 22-24
Crystal City, VA
HMCRI
301-982-9500
Pollution Prevention
Conference & Expo
R.I. Depts. of Econ. Devel.,
Environmental Management
Sept. 30-Oct.l
Warwick, RI
Eileen Marino
401-277-3434
Exec. Director: National Roundtable
The National Roundtable of State Pollution
Prevention Programs has begun a nationwide search for an
Executive Director, responsible for managing all aspects of
the day-to-day operations of the Roundtable. Qualified
candidates will possess an understanding of the mission of
the Roundtable, familiarity with state and local pollution
prevention programs, and a proven ability to provide leader-
ship and motivation in management setting. Send resumes
of inquiries to: NRSPPP c/o WR1TAR; 1313 5th Street, SE,
Suite 325; Minneapolis, MN 55414-4502; (612) 379-5995.
Notices
Green Lights Workshops
Two-day workshops featuring the fundamen-
tals of lighting technologies, computerized decision
support system, project planning and management,
financing options, and more. Free and open to the public;
however, priority is given to Green Lights Partners. For
more information, call 202-775-6650. Upcoming locations:
June 4-5, San Francisco, CA
June 11-12, Boulder, CO
June 25-26, Boston, MA
July 9-10, Washington, DC
July TBA, Kansas City, MO
August TBA, Seattle, WA
Moving?
Please send mailing label and new address to:
United States Environmental
Protection Agency (PM-222B)
Washington, DC 20460
Official Business
Penalty for Private Use $300
FIRST CLASS MAIL
POSTAGE & FEES PAID
EPA
PERMIT NO. G-35

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