Mississippi

Mississippi Comprehensive Multimedia Waste Minimization Act of

1990





P2 Objective: To promote P2 as the ultimate waste management goal, and

require waste minimization planning.

Numeric Goal: Using 1989 as a baseline year, reduce waste generated in the state by

25%.

Assistance Offered: Technical assistance, educational outreach, and information

clearinghouse offered by the state.

Reporting Requirements: Waste Minimization Plan, Annual Update, Certified

Report.

Incentives: None specified.

Funding: Pollution Prevention Fund, made up of P2 fees.

Contact: Thomas E. Whitten
Mississippi Department of Environmental

Quality
P.O. Box 10385
Jackson, MS 39289-0385
Phone: 601/961-5241



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Definitions


Pollution Prevention -- Any action taken by business, industry, government or

individual consumers to conserve natural resources while providing and using needed products

in a manner that prevents or reduces the generation, disposal or release of pollutants to the

environment.  Pollution prevention does not include dewatering, diluting or evaporation before

handling, release, storage, treatment or disposal of hazardous waste.


Waste -- Sewage, industrial wastes, oil field wastes, and all other liquid, gaseous, solid

or other substances which may pollute the lands, waters or air of the state.


Waste Minimization -- The reduction, to the extent feasible, of wastes generated

or subsequently treated, stored or disposed of.  It includes any source reduction or recycling

activity undertaken by a generator or facility operator that results in either (i) the

reduction of total volume or quantity of waste, or (ii) the reduction of toxicity or other

characteristics of hazardous waste, or both, so long as the reduction does not result in the

displacement of pollutant from one medium to another and is consistent with the goal of

minimizing present and future threats to human health and the environment.

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