API PUBL 331-1994

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Environmental Performance Indicators: Methods for Measuring Pollution Prevention

Published By	Publication Date	Number of Pages
API	1994	33

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Pollution prevention has become the preferred option for dealing with residual materials and wastes. Under a pollution prevention scenario, if a waste is reduced or eliminated at the source or recycled, it requires no further management and will not pose a threat to human health or the environment. In addition, future liability for potential cleanup from waste treatment and disposal is eliminated. Despite its broad use, pollution prevention is a term with no uniformly accepted definition. It is usually defined in terms of the environmental management hierarchy (sometimes known as the waste management hierarchy), source reduction, recycling, treatment, and disposal, but there is disagreement over which elements of the hierarchy it spans. Some see pollution prevention exclusively as source reduction or more strictly, product substitution or toxics use reduction, whereas others are willing to include some types of recycling. Few are willing to include treatment.

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