Michigan

Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Act of 1994





P2 Objective: To promote voluntary waste reduction.

Numeric Goal: None specified.

Assistance Offered: Establishes the Environmental Assistance Center within the

state agency to provide technical assistance and an information clearinghouse.

Reporting Requirements: None.

Incentives: Refund of waste disposal fees for documented reduction in hazardous

waste disposed of.

Funding: Hazardous waste fees assessed on waste disposal.

Contact: Karl Zollner, Jr., Pollurion Prevention Section
Environmental

Assistance Division
Michigan department of Environmental Quality
P.O. Box

30028
Lansing, MI 48909-7528
Phone: 517/335-7310



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Definitions


Waste Reduction -- Any practice, such as an equipment of technology modification,

a process or procedure modification, a reformulation or redesign of a product, a substitution of

raw materials, or improved management, training, or inventory control, which is undertaken by a

person to reduce the volume or quantity or toxicity of waste that may be released into the

environment or that is treated at a location separate from the production site.

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