The Business Environmental Program provides free and confidential environmental management assistance to business and government operations in Nevada. The Program specializes in cost effective strategies to reduce hazardous materials and waste generation, conserve water and energy, minimize air emissions, and maintain compliance with environmental requirements. The program provides training, on-site consultation, assistance over the phone and through its website and publications.
Repost from http://sustainableindustries.com/articles/2011/11/trash-raw-materials Technology is not a destiny. We are the smartest beings on the planet and if we do not like what we can see of the future, there is still time to change it. Hazardous waste is the inevitable byproduct of industrial development. These wastes can be unhealthy both for people and the environmental....
Sustainable development is a vast and all-encompassing idea, and corporate sustainability is nearly so. No corporate sustainability leader can hope to make their company “sustainable” in the next year—or even the next five. So as we think ahead to our sustainability initiatives for 2012, how can we set meaningful goals that will lead to measurable...
By Environmental Leader Aluminum fabricator Alcoa has launched a new series of wide base that wheels are the lightest 14″ aluminum wheels on the market. The new 58 lbs wheels are engineered for high performance through Alcoa’s proprietary LvL ONE wheel manufacturing process of light weighting. By switching from single steel 22.5″ x 8.25″ wheels...
Environmental Daily Advisor Recycling = US Jobs Recycling turns materials that would otherwise become waste into valuable resources. Not only is it good business to be green, collecting recyclable materials is just the first step in a series of actions that generate a host of financial, environmental, and societal returns—including job creation. More than 56,000...
The Western Sustainability and Pollution Prevention Network (WSPPN) Pollution Prevention (P2) Conference is expanding. We are joining forces with CalRecycle’s Used Oil/HHW Conference scheduled for May 15-17, 2012 at the Sheraton Grand in Sacramento. WSPPN is very excited about this collaboration and would like you to comment on the following theme concepts. New ideas are...
Thanks to the University of Northern Iowa and the Iowa Waste Reduction Center High Volume – Low Pressure (HVLP) spray guns are often viewed as the holy grail of spray painting transfer efficiency (TE). Quite often, HVLP is automatically assigned a generous TE rating of 65% without much (if any) consideration of coating characteristics, spray...
Now that WSPPN has completed a successful 2010 conference, we’d like to know: what hot topics or P2 or sustainability sessions would you like to see at a future WSPPN conference? What city or state in Region 9 would make the most sense for you to travel to? Donna Walden Regional Coordinator, WSPPN University of...
The Western Sustainability and Pollution Prevention Network (WSPPN) is a cooperative alliance of pollution prevention (P2) programs throughout Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 9 (Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Trust Territories, and Tribal Lands). What are the top three environmental or sustainability issues that need to be addressed in our region and why? Please identify which...
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