This publication is designed to serve as an update to the 1994 edition of the National Pollution Prevention Roundtable's Pollution Prevention Yellow Pages (the P2 Yellow Pages you see here is an abridged version, please contact the Roundtable for the entire document that includes additional information such as budget, experience, and expertise). The P2 Yellow Pages were compiled from a comprehensive mail and telephone survey effort conducted by the Roundtable. Surveys were sent to all known state and local government pollution prevention programs. Not everyone responded, which may have resulted in some omissions. If you were left out or wish to update the information listed under your organization for future directories, please contact the Roundtable at (202) 466-P2P2. Thank you again for making this edition of The Pollution Prevention Yellow Pages a success.

How are the Yellow Pages organized?

There are four sections to each yellow page listing. The first contains regional organizations that work with state and local governments. The second section lists state and local government programs which are categorized by state. Within each state, entries are alphabetized by the name of the organization. The third section contains Federal agencies and EPA P2 coordinators. The final section, entitled "other", includes non-profit groups, private sector organizations, and non-profit consultants who work on P2. Please note that inclusion in the final section should not be construed as a Roundtable endorsement. The index includes entries for contact names and organization names, as well as each organization's area(s) of experience. In addition, each organization is indexed by its type (e.g. state government, non-regulatory, etc.). Not all organizations answered every question on the survey, so some organizations are missing information on expertise, size of program, budget, etc. In these cases, the blank categories have been omitted from the organizations' entries.

The Roundtable survey asked each organization about their pollution prevention budget. It is difficult to classify and standardize information about these budgets. In many cases public and private sector programs across the country employ a variety of accounting methods and include different types of P2 activities in their budget numbers. These numbers show that the Pollution Prevention Incentives for States (PPIS) grant program supports entire P2 programs in numerous states. However, in many states PPIS funds help to leverage additional state and federal support which augment existing P2 efforts. Overall, the resources that federal, state, and local governments spend on pollution prevention is still a drop in the bucket compared to conventional, end-of-pipe environmental protection efforts.