Welcome!
                       United States
                       Environmental Protection
                       Agency
                       Solid Waste
                       and Emergency Response
                       (5306W)
EPA530-F-99-005
January 1999
www.epa.gov/osw
 Source  Reduction  Program

 Potential  Manual

 A Planning  Packet

       Thank you for your interest in source reduction and your commitment to
       reducing the volume of waste generated by your organization or commu-
       nity. Enclosed in this packet, you will find tools designed to help you
plan your source reduction program by estimating the potential impact of various
source reduction programs.
  We encourage you to customize the tools with your own local waste composition
data to develop community-specific assessments of source reduction program poten-
tial. As an alternative, the tools allow you to use national default data if no local
numbers are available. By eliminating solid waste at its source, you'll go a long way
towards protecting your local environment—and cut waste management costs in
the process.
Packet
Contents
Source Reduction Program Potential Manual:
A Planning Tool
This manual allows users to calculate the program potential for three residential and
three commercial or industrial source reduction activities. It provides worksheets
and explains how managers can apply their own data to develop local estimates.

Reducelt Software
This interactive software offers an electronic version of the worksheets provided in
the manual. It is a Windows-based (3.1 or later) application. Step-by-step installa-
tion instructions are located on the back of this page.
For More
Information
Technical Support Helpline—888 249-8883
For technical questions or concerns as you use these tools, as well as information
about upcoming training sessions.

RCRA Hotline—800 424-9346
To order additional copies of the manual and software.
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Installing  Reducelt
From Disk:
Reducelt is contained on the three installation disks
included with this packet. Follow the instructions
below for installing Reducelt on your computer. Please
call the Technical Support Helpline at 888 249-8883
if you have any questions about the installation or
use of the software.

If your computer is operating in Windows 3.1:
      1. Insert diskette 1.
      2. Choose "Run" under File menu from Program Manager.
      3. Type "a:\setup".
      4. Choose defaults as indicated.

If your  computer is operating in Windows 95:

      1. Insert diskette 1.
      2. Choose "Run" under the Start menu.
      3. Type "a:\setup".
      4. Choose defaults as indicated.

From the Internet:
Reducelt also can be downloaded from EPA's Office of Solid Waste Web site.

      1. Connect to the site located at 
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