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Home and Neighborhood 

Protect Your Health and Your Environment

• Toxic Free Tips
  From the Hazardous Substance Information and Education Office (HSIEO) - Resources for households, schools, pet owners, and others. Learn about toxic chemicals and hazardous substances. Protect the environment and your health.
• Beyond Waste
  This is the state's plan for reducing and eliminating solid and dangerous waste over the next 30 years.
• Mercury
  Learn more about mercury and what Washington state is doing to protect people and the environment from this potent poison.
• Sustainability
  Provides inspiration and information about some of the steps that we at Ecology are taking to foster sustainable communities and natural resources within our state.

Know Your Neighborhood

• Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA)
  The Community Right-to-Know provisions help increase the public's knowledge and access to information on chemicals at individual facilities, their uses, and releases into the environment.
• Environmental Reporting Contacts
  Any environmental concern or spill can be reported 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
• Governor's Award
  See businesses in your community that have been acknowledged for pollution prevention and sustainable practices.
• Local Emergency Planning Committees (LEPCs)
  The LEPC is responsible for developing a local emergency plan for their district and for the collection of information submitted by industry which is made available to the public.
• Public Information
  Information concerning Hazardous Waste Activities in Washington State.

Searchable Databases

• Ecology's Facility/Site System on the Web
  The Facility/Site Identification System contains key information for each facility/site that is currently, or has been, of interest to Ecology.
• Fertilizer Database
  What's in that fertilizer? Ecology's Fertilizer Database provides information on waste-derived fertilizers that are registered for distribution and available to consumers in Washington State. 
• Hazardous Waste Facility Search
  Search a statewide listing of all hazardous waste facilities in a database.

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