Pollution Prevention: Clearing the Air: Case Study: Alternative Dry Cleaning Solvents
Like many other neighborhood businesses, such as the local bakery, auto body shop and photo finishing lab, dry cleaners nearly always have fewer than 20 employees. And yet, like these other small businesses, dry cleaners generate significant toxic ...
Pollution Prevention: Bridging Troubled Water: The Screen Printing Industry
Screen printing, the process that creates T-shirt art and signage, can produce waste streams that are harmful to water quality. In the past, many solvents used to clean and reclaim screens were simply washed down the drain. But by using ultra viol...
Pollution Prevention: Clearing the Air: Industrial Ecology and Pollution Prevention
In the years following the first Earth Day and the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency, regulatory goals focused on "end-of-pipe" solutions to capture and treat waste before it contaminated the environment, but did little to address...
Pollution Prevention: Bridging Troubled Water: Pollution Prevention: Past, Present and Future
In terms of measurable impact and effectiveness, the federal Clean Water Act has been the most successful piece of environmental legislation in U.S. history. For companies thinking of investing in pollution prevention, the key is in balancing the c...