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Recommendation MRW1: Prioritize substances to pursue

Develop a prioritized approach to identify and eliminate MRW hazards that enter the municipal waste stream. Through collaboration with businesses and other organizations, establish a science-based process to identify hazardous substances that are high-risk and have potential widespread environmental threats. Work that will address MRW hazards will focus on one set of substances at a time. The proposed first set of priority substances is:

• Mercury (see Recommendation MRW2)
• Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE) – flame-retardants (see Recommendation MRW3)
• Electronics (see Recommendation MRW4)
• Selected pesticides (see Recommendation MRW5)
• Architectural paints and coatings (see Recommendation MRW6)

Related Milestone

A consensus-based process is in place and used to rank priority substances that are high-risk, and the next set of substances to pursue have been identified.

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