Pollution prevention survey

The Failure and Inventory Reporting System (FIRS) program was developed by the Geological Survey Division of the U.S. Department of the Interior for safety and pollution prevention devices on offshore structures that produce or process hydrocarbons. The program collected data on mechanical and some electromechanical systems on offshore oil platforms. About 8,000 failure events were documented. Access has been limited to internal materials management system use. No real-time access or periodic output products have been available. 

EPA. 1995c. Report on the national survey of lead based paint in housing - base report. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics. EPA 747-R-95-003. http //www.hud.gov/lea/leadwnlo.html. 

Sources of Information The successful development and implementation of any pollution prevention program is not only dependent on a thorough understanding of the facility s operations but also requires an intimate knowledge of current opportunities and advances in the field. In fact, 32 percent of industry respondents to an EPA survey identified the lack of technical information as a major factor delaying or preventing the implementation of a waste-... 

The extensive breadth that spans the coverage of P2 has entailed a sheer amount of development and coverage of new knowledge and information in both industrial practices and academic research. To the best of our knowledge, there has been only one comprehensive review article on the subject—that is, the 1995 survey by Freeman and co-workers of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) s Pollution Prevention Research Branch in the Risk Reduction Engineering Laboratory. The review focuses on P2 in the industrial sector, which is by far the sector in which major initiatives of P2 have been undertaken and will continue to be so. 

Survey of Tools, Technologies, and Best Practices for Pollution Prevention 109 Industrial Ecology... 

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