Lean and Green-Resources
EPA P2 Resources Businesses
This article from the EPA outlines specific resources for various categories of pollutants in different regions across America.
Sustainable Breweries Assistance
The Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment describes a few brief practices that breweries can adopt to prevent pollution in their production.
Metal Finishing Pollution Prevention
The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency describes a few brief practices that Metal Finishing businesses can adopt to prevent pollution in their production.
Food Manufacturing Pollution Prevention Techniques
This article from the EPA describes practices that can be made in the food industry to reduce their pollution, and also provides resources for these practices.
Green Chemistry
This webpage by the EPA supplies a lot of information about pollution prevention in Chemical Manufacturing and includes resources for a challenge proposed by the EPA to recognize businesses who do outstanding work to include greener practices in their chemical manufacturing.
Treasure Hunts
Energy Star provides a resource available to all businesses where they will send out teams to search for ways to reduce a facilities energy usage.
ENERGY STAR Challenge for Industry
This challenge proposed by Energy Star aims to reduce energy consumption on industrial sites by 10% in a span of 5 years. This challenge awards recognition from Energy Star and the EPA as well as the money savings from the energy reduction.
ENERGY STAR Plant Certification
This certification recognizes plants with an annual certificate of a plant’s energy performance. This is the highest recognition for a plant and verifies that the plant’s energy performance is in the top 25% for its specific industry nationwide.
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Tools and Training
Kentucky’s Resource for Environmental Sustainability’s website contains tools and training on several aspects of pollution prevention such as industrial Water Management and Renewable Energy.
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Sustainable Manufacturing Resources
This article by Kentucky’s Resource for Environmental Sustainability gives additional links to resources for sustainable manufacturing.
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NC DEQ Training
The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality provides several training modules on Air, Coast and Land, Marine Fisheries, Waste and Water.
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NC DEQ Recognition
The NC GreenTravel Initiative Program will recognize businesses who take extra measures to implement green practices in their business, and those who do will receive a certificate and a window decal denoting them as a NC GreenTravel business.
.Learn more about ‘NC Green Travel’
Pollution Prevention Resource Exchange (P2RX)
The Pollution Prevention Resource Exchange (P2Rx™) was a national network of regional P2 information centers whose mission was to advance pollution prevention as a cornerstone of sustainability.
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