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Summary
Summary
Pollution prevention technologies are experiencing great growth as organizations seek the economies and benefits of their implementation. Environmental audits, anticipation of International Standards Organization (ISO) 9000, the desire to avoid future liabilities, costs, and accidental chemical releases, as well as to promote worker safety and a "green" image in the United States and internationally, combine to encourage businesses to adopt pollution prevention programs.
The implementation of pollution prevention requires diverse engineering and management practices that reduce or preclude the pollution that reaches the air, water, or soil. Pollution Prevention Opportunity Assessments, along with its accompanying software, provides business and technical managers with straightforward guidance on how to perform pollution prevention. The compiled software, HOW2DOP2, is industry- and process-tailored and will run on virtually any machine equipped with a Web browser.
Pollution Prevention Opportunity Assessments is geared for small businesses that do not have large environmental staffs trained in pollution prevention principles or the time to learn thoroughly all of the background information necessary to develop a specific pollution prevention plan. Concentrating on the technical and practical subjects associated with performing pollution prevention, this book, with the accompanying software, provides practitioners with the tools to develop pollution prevention plans and to enable their businesses to benefit from their implementation.
Author Notes
Marcus J. Healey, PhD, MBA, is a multidisciplinary environmental professional and Director of the New Jersey Technical Assistance Program for Industrial Pollution Prevention at New Jersey Institute of Technology
Daniel Watts, PhD, is the Executive Director of the Emission Reduction Research Center and the Deputy Executive Director of the Center for Environmental Engineering and Science, both at NJIT
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. ix |
| Acknowledgments | p. xi |
| 1. Introduction | p. 1 |
| 2. Standard Operating Procedures in the Workplace | p. 7 |
| How to Establish a Pollution Prevention Program in the Workplace | p. 7 |
| Case Study | p. 59 |
| 3. Industrial Sector Reports | p. 71 |
| SIC Code 20: Food and Kindred Products | p. 73 |
| SIC Code 22: Textiles | p. 78 |
| SIC Code 26: Paper and Allied Products | p. 86 |
| SIC Code 27: Printing and Publishing | p. 91 |
| SIC Code 2911: Petroleum Refining | p. 96 |
| SIC Code 30: Rubber and Miscellaneous Plastics | p. 103 |
| SIC Code 32: Stone, Clay, Glass, and Concrete Products | p. 112 |
| SIC Code 33: Iron and Steel | p. 118 |
| SIC Code 34: Fabricated Metal Products | p. 125 |
| 4. Pollution Prevention in Relation to Processes and Hazardous Material Function | p. 133 |
| Solvent Cleaning and Degreasing | p. 133 |
| Surface Coating and Painting | p. 138 |
| Binding and Amalgamation | p. 142 |
| Acids and Bases | p. 147 |
| Metal Finishing Operations | p. 153 |
| Fermentation | p. 158 |
| Wastewater Treatment | p. 160 |
| Bleaching Process | p. 161 |
| 5. The Internet: A Great Starting Point for Pollution Prevention | p. 171 |
| Internet Tools | p. 173 |
| Researching and Evaluating Pollution Prevention Opportunities | p. 176 |
| Government and Regulatory Web Sites | p. 178 |
| Nonprofit Organizations, Research and Information Centers, and Technical Assistance Programs | p. 180 |
| Business and Industry Web Sites | p. 183 |
| Professional Organizations | p. 184 |
| Search Engines | p. 185 |
| Terminology | p. 187 |
| Appendix Trade and Professional Associations | p. 191 |
| Glossary | p. 201 |
| Definition of Terms | p. 201 |
| Nomenclature | p. 206 |
| Select Bibliography | p. 213 |
| HOW2DOP2: Installation Instructions | p. 227 |
| Index | p. 229 |
