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Workgroups
Local Government The Local Government Workgroup was established in 1993. This group's goal is to strengthen the role and effectiveness of local government's contribution to pollution prevention efforts across the country. It was pivotal in publishing a compendium of case studies on innovative local government pollution prevention initiatives as well as coordinating National Pollution Prevention Week promotional activities across the country. The group conducts local government training workshops. - Learn More -
P2 Integration & Innovation The P2I2 Workgroup aims to influence proposed and implemented regulatory issues that affect pollution prevention, especially as they affect state and local programs in environmental/regulatory and non-regulatory pollution prevention agencies.
The group has completed several influential projects and publications including the Roundtable’s Industrial Expertise Directory and a Maximum Achievable Control Technologies (MACT) pollution prevention questionnaire study.
Current activities include: area source NESHAPs, TRI reforms, NPPTAC support letter, survey results, chemicals policy, CEC and P2Win. - Learn More -
Research & Technology Transfer The mission of this group is to encourage P2 and process innovation through the use of new and commercially available technologies. The group is currently focusing on effective technology diffusion. They recently focused on five technology areas to advance the adoption of these technologies which have significant P2 potential: closed loop aqueous cleaning, waterborne wood finishing, closed mold fiberglass reinforced plastics, dry machining and waterborne adhesives. Scoping documents are available on P2 research in these industry sectors. The group has also written a white paper discussing government’s role in pollution prevention technology verification. This paper explores the issue of technology verification for P2 technology by addressing one technology verification program, U.S. EPA's Environmental Technology Verification (ETV) Program. - Learn More -
Small Business This workgroup aims to promote the active participation of small businesses in environmental decision-making at the federal, state and local levels. The workgroup will assist small businesses and technical and compliance assistance providers in finding innovative ways to improve compliance, efficiency and competitiveness by prevention pollution. - Learn More -
Discussion Groups
Sustainability The Sustainability Networking Group was formed to discuss how P2 relates to sustainable development, how P2 can contribute towards sustainability and what needs to change in order to maximize effectiveness. The group will be focusing its work on designing sessions and selecting speakers for NPPR conferences as well as developing a white paper that articulates the key issues and recommends action by NPPR and the broader P2 community. - Learn More -
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