"On this CD-ROM there are many helpful handbooks, manuals, worksheets, and checklists to support pollution prevention programs.

Provides information to help organizations get Pollution Prevention (P2) programs started or to re-evaluate existing P2 programs. It presents an alternative method for working on P2 projects & four approaches to implementing a P2 program in an organization. This Guide was not written to provide a ¿one-size-fits-all¿ formula for starting or improving a P2 Program. The intention is to spark some ideas & provide tools that can be used to successfully complete an organization¿s P2 mission. The Guide is organized into 3 basic sections: (1) Basic P2 Concepts & Tools (Chapters 1-4); (2) P2 Program Implementation Approaches (Chapters 5-8); & (3) Companion CD-ROM.

DVD-ROM contains videos and slides from a 3-day workshop series conducted in 10 EPA regions to help organisations get P2 (pollution prevention) programs started or to re-evaluate existing P2 programs.

Pollution prevention technologies are experiencing great growth as organizations seek the economies and benefits of their implementation. Environmental audits, anticipation of International Standards Organization (ISO) 9000, the desire to avoid future liabilities, costs, and accidental chemical releases, as well as to promote worker safety and a "green" image in the United States and internationally, combine to encourage businesses to adopt pollution prevention programs. The implementation of pollution prevention requires diverse engineering and management practices that reduce or preclude the pollution that reaches the air, water, or soil. Pollution Prevention Opportunity Assessments, along with its accompanying software, provides business and technical managers with straightforward guidance on how to perform pollution prevention. The compiled software, HOW2DOP2, is industry- and process-tailored and will run on virtually any machine equipped with a Web browser. Pollution Prevention Opportunity Assessments is geared for small businesses that do not have large environmental staffs trained in pollution prevention principles or the time to learn thoroughly all of the background information necessary to develop a specific pollution prevention plan. Concentrating on the technical and practical subjects associated with performing pollution prevention, this book, with the accompanying software, provides practitioners with the tools to develop pollution prevention plans and to enable their businesses to benefit from their implementation.