Virginia

Pollution Prevention Act (as amended 1994)





P2 Objective: To encourage voluntary P2 by providing incentives and

assistance for waste generators.

Numeric Goal: None specified.

Assistance Offered: State offers an information clearinghouse, education and

training, technical assistance, and grants.

Reporting Requirements: None specified.

Incentives: Waste generation reduction planners may more easily comply with

environmental laws.

Funding: None specified.

Contact: Sharon K. Baxter, Office of Pollution Prevention
Virginia Department

of Environmental Quality
P.O. Box 10009
Richmond, VA 23240-0009
Phone:

804/698-4344



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Definitions


Pollution Prevention -- Eliminating or reducing the use, generation or release at the

source of environmental waste.  This includes equipment or technology modifications, process or

procedure modifications, reformulation or redesign of products, substitution of raw materials,

improvements in housekeeping, maintenance, training, or inventory control, closed loop

recycling

and onsite process-related recycling, reuse, or extended use of any material utilizing equipment

or

methods which re an integral part of production process.  This does not include any practice

which alters the physical, chemical, or biological characteristics or the volume of an

environmental

waste through a process or activity which itself is not integral to and necessary for the production

of a product or the providing of a service.  Nor does it include treatment, increased pollution

control, off-site or non-process-related recycling, or incineration.


House Joint Resolution No. 453 (1995)



Contact: Sharon K. Baxter, Office of Pollution Prevention
Virginia Department

of Environmental Quality
P.O. Box 10009
Richmond, VA 23240-0009
Phone:

804/698-4344

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