Pollution Prevention Initiatives (8, 24, or 40-hours)

Course Description

This series of training is intended for those individuals responsible for implementing pollution prevention in their facilities. It is intended to help all types of develop broad-based, multimedia pollution prevention programs. The curricula include: identifying, assessing, and implementing opportunities for preventing pollution and how to stimulate the ongoing search for such opportunities.  Facilities that adopt this approach typically find that they reduce both their operation costs and their potential liabilities.

Course Objectives

Designed to address and/or comply with:

  1. Pollution Prevention Act of 1990

  2. EPCRA Pollution Prevention Plans

  3. EPA RCRA/SARA 40 CFR 264.16; 40 CFR 265.16 and 40 CFR 262.34 (d) (5) (iii)

Learning Objectives

  1. Regulatory Compliance

  2. Source Reduction

  3. Recycling and Reuse

  4. Hazardous Materials Control

  5. Problem Chemicals

  6. Waste Minimization

  7. EPCRA/Toxic Release Inventory

  8. Environmental Management Systems and ISO 14000

  9. Pollution Prevention Models, Databases, and Guidelines

  10. Opportunity Assessment

  11. Pollution Prevention and Waste Minimization
    The Waste Management Hierarchy
    DOD Policy

  12. Hazardous Materials Transportation

Federal Service

A version of this course has been designed specifically for the US Military.  This DoD version covers the same basic highlights and learning objectives as the private-sector version, however specific attention will be made to the existing management systems employed by the DoD, as well as current DoD policy on the standard and its implementation. 

Additional Course Objectives

  1. DOD Instruction 4210.15 Hazardous Material Pollution Prevention

  2. DOD Instruction 4715.4 Pollution Prevention

  3. Executive Order 12856

  4. Executive Order 12873, Federal Acquisition, Recycling, and Waste Prevention

  5. Executive Order 12843, Procurement Requirements and Policies for Federal Agencies for Ozone-Depleting Substances.

  6. Executive Order 12902, Energy Efficiency and Water Conservation