Washington State Department of Ecology

Publication Summary

Title	Evaluating Less Toxic Paints and Coatings? - Get the Most for your Money by Calculating True Costs
Month-Year Published	April 1998
Online Availability	View this publication in Acrobat PDF format 75 kilobytes, requires version 4.0 or later of Adobe Acrobat Reader Software get Acrobat Reader
Short Description	Many of the paints and What Is Pollution Prevention? Pollution prevention (P2) is any practice that reduces or eliminates pollution at the source. Pollution is prevented through increased efficiency in the use of raw materials, energy, water and other resources; and through reducing or eliminating the use of hazardous substances in the production process. Activities for implementing P2 include: Equipment or technology modification; Process modifications; Reformulation or redesign of products; Substitution of raw materials; Improvements in housekeeping, maintenance, training or inventory control. A process for comparing alternatives when considering alternative raw materials is detailed in this publication.
Publication Number	97-213l
Author(s)	Bernardy Brady
Contact	Bernardy Brady, (360) 407-6803
Print Availability	Not available as a printed document Please download and print this document
Number of pages	2
Keywords	coating, money, paint, pollution , pollution prevention, prevention, process, toxic, water

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Evaluating Less Toxic Paints and Coatings? - Get the Most for your Money by Calculating True Costs