Connecticut

Environmental Assistance to Business Act of 1991





P2 Objective: To assist businesses by encouraging P2.

Numeric Goal: None.

Assistance Offered: Creates a technical assistance office for small business.

Reporting Requirements: None.

Incentives: Offers loans, lines of credit, or loan guarantees for businesses engaging

in P2 activities.

Funding: Not specified.

Contact:


Bob Hannon/ Mary Sherwin

Office of Pollution Prevention
Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection
79

Elm Street, 4th Floor
Hartford, CT 06106-5127


Phone: 860/424-3297


Definitions


Pollution Prevention Activities -- Changes within a plant in production processes,

product or raw materials that reduce, avoid or eliminate the generation of hazardous by-products

per unit of product or the use of toxic or hazardous substances per unit of product without

creating new risks of concern.  Pollution prevention does not include, promote, or require:

incineration; transfer from one medium of exposure, release or discharge to another medium;

off-site or out-of-production process recycling; or methods of end-of-pipe treatment of toxic or

hazardous substances as waste.

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