OPTIONAL POLLUTION PREVENTION INFORMATION 

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In this section you may provide information not reported elsewhere in this form regarding your 

efforts to reduce or minimize potential risks associated with activities surrounding 

manufacturing, processing, use and disposal of the PMN substance. Please include new 

information pertinent to pollution prevention, including source reduction, recycling activities 

and safer processes or products available due to the new chemical substance. Source reduction 

includes the reduction in the amount or toxicity of chemical wastes by technological 

modification, process and procedure modification, product reformulation, raw materials 

substitution, and/or inventory control. Recycling refers to the reclamation of useful chemical 

components from wastes that would otherwise be treated or released as air emissions or water 

discharges, or land disposal. Description of pollution prevention, source reduction and 

recycling should emphasize potential risk reduction subsequent to compliance with existing 

regulatory requirements and can be either quantitative or qualitative. The EPA is interested in 

this information to assess overall net reduction in toxicity or environmental releases and 

exposures, not the shifting of risks to other environmental media or non-environmental areas 

(e.g., occupational or consumer exposure). In addition, information on the relative cost or 

performance characteristics of the PMN substance to potential alternatives may be provided. 

All information provided in this section will be taken into consideration during the review 

of this substance. See the revised Instructions Manual that includes a Pollution Prevention 

manual for guidance and examples.

Describe the expected net benefits, such as (1) an overall reduction in risk to human health or the environment; (2) a reduction in 

the volume manufactured; (3) a reduction in the generation of waste materials through recycling, source reduction or other 

means; (4) a reduction in potential toxicity or human exposure and/or environmental release; (5) an increase in product 

performance, a decrease in the cost of production and/or improved operation efficiency of the new chemical substance in 

comparison to existing chemical substances used in similar applications; or (6) the extent to which the new chemical substance 

may be a substitute for an existing substance that poses a greater overall risk to human health or the environment. 

This substance is manufactured in support of [ for use in the

Electronics market segment. [ ] are [ employing efficient [

emitters; the energy consumption for mass-produced [ ] is expected to be 30% lower

than that for equivalent [ . Intrinsic to the design of an [ is that more of the

light generated by the light source is actually utilized [ and the efficiency with which that

light is generated improves the overall power consumption. 

Eliminating the [ steps involved in [ processing replaces the subtractive process of patterning

~10g of [ per [ glass to the additive process of coating and printing <1g of [ ] 

materials per [ ] glass, reducing waste. Current [ ] made by [ employ structurally similar 

materials but deposit them by [ ]. This process wastes 80-90% of the consumed 

materials. The [ process employed with the [ ] materials wastes only 10-20% of the consumed material.

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