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Business, Industry

Technical Assistance and Guidance

Pollution Prevention Resources - pollution prevention opportunities listed by business sector

Pollution Prevention Plans - Assistance is available to help businesses prepare plans for voluntarily reducing hazardous substance use and hazardous waste generation.

Technical Resources for Engineering Efficiency (TREE) - Free, technical assistance for businesses, to help you save money and reduce waste

Lean and Environment - Lean manufacturing techniques improve competitiveness by identifying and eliminating wastes and non-value-added activities.

Environmentally Preferable Purchasing - Environmentally preferable purchasing (EPP), also known as green or responsible purchasing, is the procurement of goods and services that cause less harm to humans and the environment than competing goods and services that serve the same purpose.

Green Building - information about the practice and product of creating buildings which are better for our health, environment, and economy.

Managing Dangerous Waste and Cleanups

Small Quantity Generators – Regulatory requirements for small quantity generators under the Dangerous Waste regulations.

Requirements for Managing Dangerous Waste - If you generate a hazardous waste(s), your company must manage these wastes according to State dangerous waste regulations.

Cleanup Guide for Contaminated Sites - guide for small businesses and homeowners who have discovered or suspect contamination from toxic wastes on their property,

Voluntary Cleanup Program - independently perform a site cleanup with assistance services available from Ecology

Permitting

Environmental Permit Assistance (ORA) - Free assistance to help you determine what permits you neet and how to get them.

Stormwater permits and assistance

By business sector

Demolition - Managing demolition debris, including Asbestos, Lead, PCBs and other dangerous waste.

Auto Recyclers - Information about removing mercury switches in older vehicles.

Dentists - prevent discharging mercury, silver, and other dangerous wastes into the environment.

Hospitals - helping hospitals eliminate mercury-containing products, mercury waste, reduce solid waste and minimize the use and production of Persistent, Bioaccumulative and Toxic (PBT) pollutants and to increase sustainable management practices.

HVAC Contractors - information about recycling mercury thermostats.