TRI & Pollution Prevention Data

TRI National Meeting

March 31st, 2009
Pollution Prevention Act of 1990
 Pollution Prevention Act (PPA)
 Declared national policy of source reduction
 Reduce hazardous substance, pollutant, contaminant
entering any waste stream
 Reduce hazards to public health and environment

 Required source reduction and data collection

 Section 8 added to Form R
“Source reduction”
Any practice which
 Reduces amount of waste prior to recycling,
treatment, disposal, and
 Reduces hazards to public health and
environment
To air, land, water
 Waste Management Hierarchy
“Pollution should be prevented or reduced at the source whenever feasible.”

Source Reduction

P2
In-Process Recycling
Waste
Minimization

Other Recycling

Treatment
Pollution
Control
Disposal
“Disposal or other release into the
environment should be employed
only as a last resort.”
PPA Source Reduction and
Recycling Report
 Quantity disposed or released
 Quantity recycled and recycling process
 Quantity treated and treatment process
 Ratio of production change from previous year
 Percentage change from previous year and two
years forward
 Source reduction practices used for the chemical
during report year and techniques that identified
the source reduction practice
Form R Section 8
 Total production-related waste (TPRW) of
toxic chemical involved in operations
 Measure of change from previous year
 Estimate of future TPRW
Form R Section 8.10 Source
Reduction Activities
 Source reduction practices and techniques
used to identify source reduction
opportunities
 43 activities in eight categories
 11 methods used to identify activities

 Additional information (narrative)

 Source Reduction Activity
Categories
Good operating practices (3)
Inventory control (6)
Spill and leak prevention (6)
Raw material modifications (3)
Process modifications (6)
Cleaning and degreasing (10)
Surface preparation & finishing (5)
Product modifications (4)
Methods Used to Identify
Opportunities for SR Activities
•Internal P2 Audit
• External P2 Audit
• Materials Balance Audits
• Participative Team Management
• Employee Recommendation
• Employee Recommendation
(formal company program)
• State Govt Tech Assistance
• Federal Govt Tech Assistance
• Trade Assoc/Industry Tech
Assistance
• Vendor Assistance
• Other
Source Reduction Example
 Furniture facility uses glue with TRI
chemicals
 Starts new drum of glue at beginning of
each shift
 Finds way to change out drums only when
drum is empty, reducing glue waste and
TRI release (i.e. source reduction)
Facilities Reporting SR Activities in
Colorado and Michigan
Colorado Michigan
Report Total Facilities Total Facilities
Year Facilities Reporting SR Facilities Reporting SR
1991 200 78 1036 350
1998 213 38 992 222
1999 203 38 950 226
2000 209 36 940 212
2001 242 34 974 219
2002 237 24 979 206
2003 220 30 958 172
2004 236 27 941 144
2005 235 25 916 130
2006 231 19 901 114
2007 224 23 813 107
P2 Results System
Partners
 National Pollution Prevention Roundtable
(NPPR)
 Pollution Prevention Resource Exchange
(P2Rx)
 Colorado, Michigan, NEWMOA (Region 1
&2 P2Rx Center)
National P2 Results Task Force
 Joint Project: NPPR & P2Rx
 Includes representatives of states in every
EPA Region, P2Rx Centers, EPA HQs &
Regional Offices
 Has been meeting for over 4 years
 Focused on developing core national P2
measures, data aggregation tool, & report
on the results
Purpose
 Help sell the economic and environmental
value of P2
 Help policy makers assess P2 efforts and
determine funding
 Provide EPA quality data regarding P2
efforts
Current Accomplishments
 Designed & built P2 Results System (with EPA
P2 Program funding)

 Developed a Data Dictionary for a set of core

metrics – Behavioral, Activity and Outcome

 MOA with state/local P2 Programs – 48

signatories, 73 data contributors

 Used system to collect P2 data from 2004-2006

Activity Measures (Level 1)
 Trainings, workshops, meetings, conferences and
roundtables
 P2 Plans
 Site visits
 Brief assistance
 P2 information developed
 P2 information distributed
 Grants awarded
 Web visitors to online information
 Awards Programs
 Leadership Programs
Behavioral Measures (Level 2)
 Clients reporting adoption of P2 policies
 People trained in P2 by clients
 Clients developing EMSs
 Clients that have developed a P2 Team
 Clients that have mapped their processes
 Clients reporting compliance improvements
 Clients reporting implemented P2 suggestions
 Clients reporting increased understanding of P2
Opportunities
Outcome Measure (Level 3)
 Reduced Operating Costs (dollars/year)
 Non-Hazardous (pounds/year)
 Hazardous Materials (pounds/year)
 Hazardous Wastes (pounds/year)
 Air Emissions (pounds/year)
 Solid Waste (pounds/year)
 Energy (KwH/year or therms/year)
 Green Energy (KwH/year or therms/year)
 Water Use (gallons/year)
 Water Pollution (pounds/year)
 The Framework
Customers

Data
Collection
Desktop/
Database
Tracking

Regional
Aggregation

National
Roll-up
Of Results
 P2Rx Dataflow Diagram

P2Rx

Region 1, 2 4 5 6 7 8 9 3, 10
The Data Flow
Web Data Entry

Outcomes System
Regional Modules

Staging Database

P2Rx System

Colorado Node

Data Package Staging Database

P2Rx Node
P2 Results (2004 – 2006)
 Air Pollution Reduced – Averaged 0.8 billion
pounds/year includes CO2, NOx, SOx, PM (2007
TRI Air Releases 1.3 billion pounds)

 Water Pollution Reduced – Averaged 13 million

pounds of toxics/year, 20 million pounds/year
total (2007 TRI Water Releases 232 million
pounds)

 Savings – $2.2 billion/year

Questions?
 Discussion Questions
- How do we get more and better TRI
Section 8.10 Reporting?
- Training
- Assistance
- Are there ways to make it more
useful/meaningful (balanced with
burden)?
- Quantities (pounds) reduced?
Discussion Questions con.
- How else could we capture P2
Results from TRI facilities?

- Ways to get TRI quantified Source

Reduction data into P2 Results
System?

- Would this be good to do? Worth

the effort?
Discussion Questions con.
- Other possible uses of Section 8.10
data?
- Using data to identify
environmental leaders
(activities above and beyond
regulations)
Contact Info
Ruth Borgelt
borgeltr@michigan.gov 517-373-9804

Kirk Mills
kirk.mills@state.co.us 303-692-2977

P2Rx
www.p2rx.org/services/measurement.cfm