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About SCCP
The NPPR 2025 Safer Chemistry Challenge Program (SCCP) is designed to motivate, challenge, and reward facilities to reduce the use of chemicals, especially hazardous chemicals, through source reduction measures. These measures include the following approaches:
- Making changes in production processes and adopting new technologies
- Moving toward cleaner processes that avoid the use and generation of toxic chemicals
- Changing raw materials to include benign or low toxicity materials that degrade into innocuous substances in the environment
- Using tools and design options in support of green chemistry
- Selecting and using safe alternatives
As part of this program, companies are encouraged to partner with state and local technical assistance programs. Such programs can help identify ways to reduce waste and emissions and move toward safer substitute chemicals, which can result in reduced costs, improved productivity, and regulatory compliance.
Challenge Program Benefits
By making changes and participating in the Challenge Program, companies can:
- Improve employee health and safety
- Minimize risk and liability Institute supply chain initiatives
- Improve company image with the community
- Reward investments in the design of increasingly safer chemicals and products
- Reduce cost of compliance and employee protection
- Realize that alternatives may have improved performance Improve profitability
Steps to Participating in the Challenge Program
SCCP One Page Background (The baseline year is 2010.)
Updates
P2 Measurement Tools
Pollution Prevention Measurement Tools
RELEVANCE OF POLLUTION PREVENTION MEASURES - THINK CLIMATE CHANGE
Pollution prevention and climate change? You may be sure that pollution prevention can successfully tackle climate change–but can you prove it? Thanks to the U.S. EPA’s new pollution prevention calculators, you now can provide the numbers you need to convincingly make your case.
In our society, measurement is empowerment. From corporate managers to baseball fans, measurement bring credibility to discussions, informs us of where we are allows us to set goals for where we want to be. It allows us to evaluate the status quo, benchmark, and make changes. Whether you are in business, government agencies, and public institutions or at home–numbers inform good decisions. Among environmental solutions, pollution prevention solutions tend to have the strongest track record for delivering environmental benefits while preventing an economic burden on the marketplace. These calculators can empower those marketing pollution prevention solutions and making connections between P2 and positive environmental change for problems like climate change.
Suite of P2 Performance Measures
- Pounds of hazardous materials reduced;
- Gallons of water saved;
- Million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents (greenhouse gas emissions) that are reduced or avoided;
- Dollars saved by businesses and institutions through P2 practices.
Background
The tools were reviewed by a panel from the P2 community and were showcased in national webinars and conferences reaching over 600 participants. Based on panel and webinar-training feedback the U.S. EPA reworked the tools to be more robust, user friendly, with better training elements. All of the P2 tools are in an Excel format and finalized as of November 2011. U.S. EPA will periodically update the tools as new information and data sources become available.
Who should use the tools?
Anyone can use the tools. The U.S. EPA designed them with state and local governments, business facilities, grantees, and project managers in mind.
What is the purpose and benefits of the tools?
They are designed to help calculate GHG emissions and cost savings from P2 activities, and to help convert gallons of hazardous materials into pounds. The tools help to convert standard business units into environmental measurement units, increase transparency of reported data, and make reference sources clear.
White Papers
13 States Release States’ Principles for TSCA Reform
On Wednesday, Dec. 2, the thirteen states of California, Connecticut, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New York, Oregon, Vermont and Washington released a document outlining their shared principles for reforming the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).
View the signed document of principles: Document of Principles
States’ Principles on Reform of the Toxic Substance Control Act December 2, 2009: States’ Principles on Reform of the Toxic Substance Control Act
Regions
P2 Regional Roundtables
| Regions 1 & 2 | Northeast Waste Management Officials’ Association |
| Region 3 | Environmental Sustainability Resource Center |
| Region 4 | Environmental Sustainability Resource Center |
| Region 5 | Great Lakes Regional Pollution Prevention Roundtable |
| Region 6 | Zero Waste Network |
| Region 7 | P2 Regional Information Center |
| Region 8 | Peaks to Prairies P2 Information Center |
| Region 9 | Western Sustainability & Pollution Prevention Network |
| Region 10 | Pollution Prevention Resource Center |
P2 Video
Welcome to NPPR!
The National Pollution Prevention Roundtable, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, is the largest membership organization in the United States devoted solely to pollution prevention (P2). The mission of the Roundtable is to provide a national forum for promoting the development, implementation, and evaluation of efforts to avoid, eliminate, or reduce pollution at the source.
Fundraising Opportunity
Help NPPR raise some funds and also get involved in a recycling program. If you are in need of new inkjet catridges order them through the link below and NPPR will receive 15%. If you have old ink cartridges or cell phones to recycle NPPR will receive funds for those. To learn more.P2 Press
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