Practical Guide to Pollution Prevention Planning for the Iron and Steel Industries

Practical Guide to Pollution Prevention Planning for the Iron and Steel Industries
Author: U. S. Environmental Protection Agency
Publisher: BiblioGov
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2013-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9781289207403

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was introduced on December 2, 1970 by President Richard Nixon. The agency is charged with protecting human health and the environment, by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress. The EPA's struggle to protect health and the environment is seen through each of its official publications. These publications outline new policies, detail problems with enforcing laws, document the need for new legislation, and describe new tactics to use to solve these issues. This collection of publications ranges from historic documents to reports released in the new millennium, and features works like: Bicycle for a Better Environment, Health Effects of Increasing Sulfur Oxides Emissions Draft, and Women and Environmental Health.

Pollution Prevention Opportunity Assessments

Pollution Prevention Opportunity Assessments
Author: Marcus J. Healey
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1998-05-15
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780471292265

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.

Municipal Pretreatment Programs

Municipal Pretreatment Programs
Author: Lynn Knight
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 96
Release: 1995-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9780788123825

Provides an overview of pollution prevention concepts, presents a way to identify and prioritize industries as candidates for pollution prevention, and outlines a broadly applicable approach to integrating pollution prevention concepts into existing pretreatment programs. Includes pollution prevention summaries on the following industries: automotive-related, commercial printing, fabricated metal products, paint manufacturing, pesticide formulation, photoprocessing, and more. Contains a comprehensive list of pollution prevention resources. 30 charts, tables and graphs.

Pollution Prevention

Pollution Prevention
Author: Kenneth L. Mulholland
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2010-09-07
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0470935316

As many industries are beginning to learn, pollution prevention technologies offer more than just a way to comply with regulations, or even to “do the right thing.” It also makes smart business sense. The authors of this book, both veterans of DuPont’s in-house waste reduction team, have put together a “how-to” guide for locating and implementing the best pollution prevention strategies for particular manufacturing processes. The book codifies elements of fundamental pollution prevention knowledge that are “easily understood and broadly applicable,” across a wide range of industries. At the heart of the book is what the authors call the “10-Step Method for Engineering Evaluations of Pollution Prevention Methods,” which breaks down the process to such simple steps as defining problems, setting goals, and identifying, defining, and evaluating alternative strategies.