Research support to the pollution prevention program of the US Postal Service
- Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, OH (United States)
The USPEA Risk Reduction Engineering Laboratory`s (RREL) Pollution Prevention Research Program focuses on the question {open_quotes}How should consumer, government and industrial products and processes be designed, manufactured, used, and/or performed so that their manufacture, use, disposal, or performance will have a minimal effect on the environment.{close_quotes} Research projects addressing this issue are divided into five areas: (1) Clean Technology Projects; (2) Clean Products Projects; (3) Longer Term P2 Research; (4) P2 Assessments: and (5) Cooperative P2 Projects with Other Federal Agencies. Under the general heading of Cooperative P2 Projects with Other Federal Agencies, a specific research program exists at RREL, which is referred to as the WREAFS Program (Waste Reduction Evaluations At Federal Sites). Many of the projects with the Departments of Defense (DOD) and Energy (DOE), are funded under the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP). The primary components of the WREAFS program are: (1) opportunity assessments; (2) research, development and demonstration; and (3) technology transfer. Most of the WREAFS projects involve Pollution Prevention Opportunity Assessments (PPOA) and have been conducted in conjunction with DOD facilities; however, several {open_quotes}civilian{close_quotes} agencies are now beginning to participate in the program, as well. One major player which is emerging as a leader in addressing P2 on an agency-wide basis is the US Postal Service (USPS). Like most agencies, the USPS` operations entail many industrial-type processes that are common to the private sector Industrial complex.
- OSTI ID:
- 111465
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9504110-; TRN: 95:005009-0007
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 21. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) annual Risk Reduction Engineering Laboratory research symposium, Cincinnati, OH (United States), 4-6 Apr 1995; Other Information: PBD: 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of 21st Annual RREL research symposium: Abstract proceedings; PB: 398 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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