Idea Bank
Pollution Prevention & Resource Efficiency
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At schools, libraries, municipal buildings, hospitals, etc.:
- Conduct an energy audit
- Purchase and install solar panels
- Purchase and install day-lighting systems
- Sponsor a pollution prevention workshop for local businesses
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At facilities that may be subject to a SEP agreement:
- Utilize less-dangerous chemicals in the manufacturing process
- Pave parking lots to control fugitive dust emissions
- Pave roadways to control fugitive dust emissions
- At facilities that may be subject to a SEP agreement, utilize better treatment and control technologies that go beyond current requirements to reduce the amount of pollution released
- Sponsor a community wood stove replacement program
- Purchase emission reduction equipment for local diesel delivery trucks, garbage haulers, school buses
- Purchase and install pollution control devices and/or cleaner fuels for local school buses
- Assist a school in recycling outdated laboratory chemicals
- Provide funds for hazardous materials training and backup coverage for local fire departments and other special response teams.
- Purchase monitoring equipment
- Develop an environmental program that provides compliance assistance and energy efficiency training to local small businesses
- Sponsor an environmental management system workshop for businesses
- Fund environmental compliance audits for local institutions
- Support the demonstration of an emerging environmental technology at a local facility
- Sponsor a retired engineer or college graduate student to work on an environmental project at a local school or hospital
- Provide for environmental education materials and/or training for K-12 teachers in the region
- Purchase media campaign to educate community about local air quality issues
- Sponsor a program that recognizes outstanding local environmental projects
- Fund school field trips to local recycling businesses, landfills, water treatment plants, or waste water treatment plants
- Build an outdoor environmental learning project
- Sponsor participation at an ecology / environment workshop or camp