On September 13, 2004, EPA issued a new air pollution control regulation called a maximum achievable control technology (MACT) standard for hazardous air pollutants emitted from commercial, industrial and institutional ...

Printers use solvents and wipes to clean oil-based ink from equipment. Solvent cleaning typically generates hazardous waste solvents, and used cleanup wipes contaminated with ink and solvent residue. By minimizing and ...

Stewart Harris - Director, Marine and Environmental Stewardship, Plastics Division, American Chemistry Council. A 2015 study published in Science estimated that 4.8 to 12.7 million metric tons of plastic waste enter our ...

Efficiency performance contracts (EPCs) for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are a marketbased approach that rewards suppliers for improving efficiency and reducing waste in SME operations through pollution prevention ...

This project was conceived as a supplement to that of Dr. J. Levengood entitled "DePue WMA Biological Site Characterization: Segment III - Levels and Effects of Selected Metals in Raccoons". Dr. Levengood had proposed ...

In spring 2013, ISTC became involved as a partner with a new program in Champaign Country which collects old and unwanted drugs to keep them out of landfills, or to keep them from being flushed down the toilet. The project ...

Membrane filtration is a technology utilizing “smart filters” capable of separating contaminants from clean detergent. The crux of the technology lies in the ability of these filters to separate molecules on the basis of ...

Describes pollution prevention and energy efficiency projects at Merck's West Point, PA facility.

This Phase-Down Strategy is a project of the GLRC and seeks to complement and enhance the recommendations in the Quicksilver Caucus’s Action Plan and Implementation Strategy for reducing mercury in the environment. The ...

Discusses a mercury thermometer exchange event held at Cambridge Community Hospital.