The enterprise must comply with the laws and regulations enacted by the government for prevention of pollution". *
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In 1990, Congress passed the Pollution Prevention Act which states: "the Environmental Protection Agency must establish a source reduction program which collects and disseminates information, provides financial assistance to States, and implements the other activities...."
EPA is responsible for implementing the law passed by Congress called the Pollution Prevention Act of 1990.
The "Findings" section of the Pollution Prevention Act of 1990 explains why Congress passed the P2 Act and are briefly captured below:
The United States of America annually produces millions of tons of pollution and spends tens of billions of dollars per year controlling this pollution.
There are significant opportunities for industry to reduce or prevent pollution at the source through cost-effective changes in production, operation, and raw materials use.
The opportunities for source reduction are often not realized because existing regulations, and the industrial resources they require for compliance, focus upon treatment and disposal, rather than source reduction.
Source reduction is fundamentally different and more desirable than waste management and pollution control.
P2 defined
Pollution prevention is reducing or eliminating waste at the source by modifying production processes, promoting the use of nontoxic or less toxic substances, implementing conservation techniques, and reusing materials rather than putting them into the waste stream.
Pollution prevention means source reduction and EPA defines P2 in this Memorandum - May 28, 1992, Subject: EPA Definition of "Pollution Prevention."
The Pollution Prevention Act defines "source reduction" to mean any practice which:
Reduces the amount of any hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant entering any waste stream or otherwise released into the environment (including fugitive emissions); prior to recycling, treatment or disposal; and
Reduces the hazards to public health and the environment associated with the release of such substances, pollutants or contaminants.
The term includes: equipment or technology modifications; process or procedure modifications; reformulation or redesign of products; substitution of raw materials; and improvements in housekeeping, maintenance, training or inventory control.
Under the Pollution Prevention Act, recycling, energy recovery, treatment and disposal are not included within the definition of pollution prevention.
National pollution prevention policy
The Pollution Prevention Act establishes a national policy that EPA implements:
Pollution should be prevented or reduced at the source whenever feasible;
Pollution that cannot be prevented should be recycled in an environmentally safe manner whenever feasible;
Pollution that cannot be prevented or recycled should be treated in an environmentally safe manner whenever feasible; and
Disposal or other release into the environment should be employed only as a last resort and should be conducted in an environmentally safe manner.
2010-2014 Pollution Prevention Program Strategic Plan - This plan identifies a number of opportunities to reduce: the emission of greenhouse gases; the use of hazardous materials; and the use of natural resources, while contributing to a more sustainable economy.
Evaluation of EPA Efforts to Integrate Pollution Prevention Policy throughout EPA and at Other Federal Agencies - This evaluation, from October 2008, describes key areas that could benefit from additional attention to P2 integration and makes connections between P2 integration activities and sustainability policy developments.
Pollution Prevention Policy Statement - New Directions for Environmental Protection, Carol M. Browner - then EPA Administrator. June 15, 1993.