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Under the Pollution Prevention Act, recycling is second in the environmental protection hierarchy, when pllution cannot be prevented or reduced at the source. Recycling can play an important role in the federal sector.
- Pollution Prevention
The Pollution Prevention Act (PPA), signed by President...
- Pollution Prevention
Pollution Prevention Concepts and Principles. By Erica Phipps, NPPC Research Assistant. This document introduces the concepts and principles of pollution prevention (P2) and gives a brief overview of P2 activities of government, industry, and the general public.
It also lays down rules designed to prevent or, where that is not practicable, to reduce emissions into air, water and land and to prevent the generation of waste, in order to achieve a high level of protection of the environment taken as a whole.
The Pollution Prevention Act defines "source. --reduces the amount of any hazardous waste stream or otherwise released into the prior to recycling, treatment, or disposal; --reduces the hazards to public health and such substances, pollutants, or contaminants.
The Pollution Prevention Act (PPA), signed by President George Bush on November 5, 1990, established a national policy, known as the waste management hierarchy, that stated: Pollution should be prevented or reduced at the source
It is a multimedia approach that concentrates on preventing the production of waste in any form in all parts of the plant. Waste minimization was first introduced as a national policy in the 1984 Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments (HSWA) to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA).
The Clean Air Act (CAA) authorizes EPA to set mobile source limits, ambient air quality standards, hazardous air pollutant emission standards, standards for new pollution sources, and significant deterioration requirements; to identify areas that do not attain federal ambient air
