The topics cover all general industry categories, manufacturing processes, hazardous waste streams, and water and air discharges. Specific information includes economical and technical data, process descriptions, waste reduction techniques, and implementation strategies. The collection also contains information on municipal recycling, solid waste reduction, environmental audits, and perspectives in pollution prevention. In addition, the WRRC has listings of numerous electronic bulletin boards providing information on environmental issues and technologies. Washington The Local Hazardous Waste Management Program in King County provides free technical assistance to small quantity generators of hazardous waste.
Pollution prevention is their focus.
Newsletters and brochures are available on-line. Operated by the University of Michigan, the NPPC has become the primary clearinghouse for curricular materials, case studies, and research publications related to pollution prevention. This WWW site includes updates on NPPC's continuing education courses, case studies, curricular materials, and faculty. This is a system of software for efficiently delivering information on clean technologies and pollution prevention methodologies to the conceptual process and product designer on an as-needed basis. The system is meant to address the challenge of incorporating environmental considerations into conceptual process and product design, where the majority of the waste can be reduced in a cost effective manner.