NPPR News
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NPPR Election is Approaching
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Elections will be held for five NPPR Board of Directors positions by the end of this month. Please watch for your ballot to arrive soon. This is a great opportunity to learn about the people running and show them your support. |
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Save the Date for Pollution Prevention Week!
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"Pollution Prevention for Cleaner Air and a Better Climate" Pollution Prevention Week is coming up September 19-25. NPPR and a number of other groups will be holding events in honor of the occasion. Be sure to check the p2.org Events page for a full schedule of events, and contact admin@p2.org so we can post your event. P2 Week will also be when this year's Most Valuable Pollution Prevention (MVP2) Award winners are announced. |
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Workgroup updates
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About NPPR Workgroups
NPPR's workgroups
bring together P2 professionals from across the country to share ideas, information, and deliverables. The topical areas coincide with EPA national emphasis areas and other areas of interest to the P2 community.
NPPR currently hosts six active workgroups. They are:
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Food & BeverageWe would like to thank out-going Food & Beverage Workgroup Chair, Joy Onasch, for her years of hard work and dedication spreading pollution prevention throughout the food and beverage industry. And we would like to welcome our new Food & Beverage Co-chairs, Kathy Black (NH) and Ben Jarvis (ID) as they organize our next workgroup meeting to be held on Monday, Sept. 12, 2022 at 1pm (ET)/ 10am (PT). At this meeting, guest speaker Ify Isigwe with the Washington Department of Ecology will speak about reductions for CIP, refrigeration, and pH wastewater management. Please email admin@p2.org if you are interested in receiving workgroup notifications. Recordings of past webinars are available on the F&B workgroup resource page. |
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Metal FinishingOur last workgroup meeting was on June 21 and featured guest speaker Michael Johnson of Lean Environment, Inc. who gave an excellent presentation, and we hope he will return as a speaker for a future workgroup meeting. We hope to announce the date of our next meeting soon, so watch your email inbox for the announcement. If you want to be sure to receive it, you can sign up for the Metal Finishing Workgroup email list by sending a message to admin@p2.org. |
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From the States
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Region 4
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Swimming Pool Pollution Prevention
Do you know any swimming pool owners interested in preventing pollution? Orange County, Florida has developed a great website with the information you need. It covers everything from what substances in pool water are potentially harmful to the environment to how to safely discharge drained pool water.
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Region 5
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Minnesota is Serious About Chlorinated Solvent Pollution Prevention
You have probably already heard about Minnesota's ban on trichloroethylene (TCE). Now, they're focusing on PERC. That's right, Minnesota has banned the use of perchloroethylene (PERC) as a dry-cleaning solvent starting in 2026. In order to facilitate this transition, they are currently offering up to $20,000 in cost-share grant funding to owners/operators of dry-cleaning facilities using PERC to switch to a technically viable and environmentally preferable alternative or to simply decommission their existing PERC machines. |
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Regions 9 & 10
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P2 West Conference
The programs of EPA Region 9 and 10 are joining forces to bring you one of the premier pollution prevention events of the nation -- P2 West: Inspiration, Innovation, and Implementation. The event will be held on Oct 18-20, 2022 in Portland, Oregon. P2 West will offer a variety of sessions on emerging pollution prevention (P2) topics, best practices of technical assistance providers (TAPs), and many networking opportunities so you can learn from and connect with current and potential partners. Come and join us to increase your understanding of the issues affecting our nation, their solutions, and enjoy the scenery of the beautiful Pacific Northwest. |
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U.S. EPA News
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New P2 Grant Listening Sessions Announced
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced two listening sessions, Sept. 7 and 8, 2022 to collect input on the development of a new grant opportunity made possible by the $100 million investment in the agency’s Pollution Prevention (P2) program from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
EPA is interested in understanding how these grants can be most accessible and useful to applicants. EPA will also seek additional insight into how funded projects can increase supply and demand for safer, environmentally preferable products, such as those certified by EPA’s Safer Choice program or identified by EPA’s Environmentally Preferable Purchasing program. Additionally, the agency is also interested in feedback on which projects would best support the grant’s goals, how to best encourage grantees to partner with other organizations to maximize project impact, how to best encourage projects that will benefit underserved communities and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and which barriers exist to potential applicants and what can be done to minimize those barriers.
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New Publications
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Renewable Energy Guidance for Industry
This document from DOE is intended to help Better Buildings, Better Plants partners navigate the renewable energy market by providing background on renewable technologies and their benefits, as well as a wide range of purchasing options available to organizations. This guidance provides helpful information on adopting renewables by highlighting tools and resources for evaluating renewable energy projects. It also provides information on how renewable energy resources are accounted for by Better Plants reporting requirements. A separate supplemental document to this guidance provides more in-depth information about renewable technologies.
Better Plants recently hosted a webinar that highlights information from the guide. |
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Non-PFAS Wetting Agents for Decorative Chromium(VI) Plating
This Products Finishing article is based on a presentation given at NASF SUR/FIN 2022, in Rosemont, Illinois, in Session 6, Responses to PFAS / PFOA. The case study describes three facilities’ conversion from PFAS-containing wetting agents to non-PFAS equivalents, eliminating PFAS and moving forward with a smaller and more sustainable environmental footprint. |
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Louisville Charter for Safer Chemicals policy papers
The Louisville Charter for Safer Chemicals is a roadmap to transform chemical industry. It consists of a preamble vision statement and ten platform planks that lay out the principles that must guide this transition. These policy papers provide more background on each Charter plank and provide specific policy directions and recommendations to put them into practice.
The following papers are currently available:
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NASF/AESF Foundation Research Project #121: Development of a Sustainability Metrics System and a Technical Solution Method for Sustainable Metal Finishing - 8th Quarterly Report
This NASF-AESF Foundation research project report covers the eighth quarter of project work (January-March 2022) at Wayne State University in Detroit. The major activities in this report period are: (1) the development of a sustainability assessment method for technology evaluation with case studies, and (2) a continuous development of a software tool for sustainability assessment. |
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Hold the Plastic, Please: A Restaurant's Guide to Reducing Plastic
Beyond Plastics has created this guide to help any restaurant that is interested in reducing its use of plastic make key switches and communicate them effectively to existing customers, prospective customers, the media, and the general public. The guide offers practical advice, tools, resources, and case studies of two restaurants who have successfully reduced their use of plastic. |
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Charting the Path: Sustainability Leaders Survey
In January 2022, Natural Capital Exchange (NCX) interviewed 250 sustainability leaders from across the United States to learn how they are approaching their programs. This report is intended to provide sustainability professionals with insight on what this cohort is thinking about and prioritizing, and will provide tips for reaching sustainability goals. |
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