This nuts and bolts book addresses specific waste minimization and pollution prevention techniques that work in specific types of laboratories for specific wastestreams. Concepts in the book may be directly applied to laboratory operations. In addition, the book illustrates other approaches to laboratory pollution prevention, such as reducing wastewater discharges and fume hood emissions. A wide range of waste types, including hazardous, infectious, medical, PCB, and radioactive, are discussed. This book helps you to develop a broad, institutional framework to plan and set priorities for pollution prevention. It responds to your laboratory's critical need to have readily available techniques and concepts for waste minimization and pollution prevention.

Prepared to provide general medical and surgical hospitals with guidelines and options to minimize hazardous waste in selected waste streams.

"Details the legal, organizational, hierarchical, and environmental components of pollution prevention and waste reduction. Illustrates fundamental concepts of pollution prevention, including life-cycle planning and analysis, risk-based pollution control, and industrial ecology."

Provides an overview of waste generating processes and operations which occur in educational research institutions and presents options for minimizing waste generation thru source reduction recycling. Written as a teaching tool, outlines pollution prevention theory and practice. Step-by-step manual takes you through the waste audit process. 13 pages of pre-designed assessment forms are accompanied by a detailed case study of an actual large university waste audit.