Land, Waste and Emergency Management Innovations
Innovation Pilots by Primary Focus Areas
Primary Focus Areas
Chemical Management
Community Engagment
Compost/Food Related
Consumer Choice/Retail
Electronics Recycling
Emergency Preparedness
Environmental Results Program
Green Buildings
Green Facility Management
Green Jobs
Green Remediation
Hospitals
Land Revitalization
Local Government
Material Reuse
Packaging
Product Stewardship
Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Waste to Energy
Other
Chemical Management
- Expanding Pharmaceutical Waste Management in Hospitals
- Testing Chemical Management Services in Schools
Community Engagement
- Communicating with Color – Color Coding Data and Risk at Three Region 6 Remedial Sites
- Improving Access to Healthcare at Superfund Sites: Redevelopment Opportunities for Medically Underserved Communities
- Miners Engage in Idaho Mercury Roundup
Compost/Food Related
- Agricultural and Municipal Cooperation in Co-composting Green and Animal Wastes
- Anaerobic Degestion Facility for Urban Food Waste
- Catalyzing Composting in Urban Communities
- City of McAllen “Save the Greens” Resource Recycling, Recovery, and Composting Pilot Project.
- Food Donation Magic
- Food Fight: Preventing Food Waste Upstream
- Source Reduction 2.0: Integrating Capacity within WasteWise to Measure and Track Upstream Food Waste Source Reduction and Serve as a Value-Added Auditing and Tracking Tool for Our Partners
- University Food Waste Composting
Consumer Choice/Retail
- Applying Social Marketing Techniques to Reduce Wasteful Consumption
- Environmentally Beneficial Behavior Placement in Television
- Florida Green Lodging Locator andInformation Service
- Recycle City 2.0
- Retail Buyer Training on Recycled-Content Products
Electronics Recycling
- Closing the E-Design – E-Scrap Loop
- Collecting and Recycling Used Computers Via the Reverse Distribution System
- Effectiveness of Cell Phone Reuse, Refurbishment, and Recycling Programs
- Measuring the Environmental Benefits of Federal Electronic Equipment Management Practices
- Project PURE: Promoting Understanding of RFID and the Environment
- Simplified Lifecycle Analysis of Recycled Plastic in Electronics
Emergency Preparedness
- Characterizing Environmental Contamination through Airborne Hyperspectral Imaging
- Emergency Prevention, Preparedness, and Response in Smaller Communities
- Unidocs Hazardous Materials Inventory
Environmental Results Program
Green Buildings
- Assessment of Gasification Technologies for Wet Wastes
- Creating an Integrated “Green”Parking Lot and Urban Wetlands on a Former Commercial Site
- Encouraging Local Green Building Construction and Operation Through Strategic Web Resources
- Innovative Use of Recycled Materials to Increase Beneficial Use of Construction and Demolition (C&D) Debris Fines
- Green Building Transit Leadership Project - BART District
- Green Gas Stations
- Sustainable Design and Green Building Toolkit for Local Governments
- Promoting Innovative Green Infrastructure Concepts to R5 Stakeholders
- Sprout City South – A Component of the Smart City Charleston Program; An Innovative Proposal to Build Green Infrastructure and a Green Economy
- Sustainable Products Movement: Opportunity to Advance Materials Management Principles for Resource Conservation and GHG benefits
- Taking the NEWMOA Beneficial Use Determinations (BUDs) Database Nationwide
Green Facility Management
- Assisting Small Businesses in Voluntary Pollution Prevention Efforts: Facility Decontamination in the Wood Preserving Industry
- Encouraging Local Green Building Construction and Operation Through Strategic Web Resources
- Integrated Tribal Environmental Management Center
- Sustainable Transit Leadership
Green Jobs
Green Remediation
- Analysis of Vapor Intrusion Data to Establish an Appropriate Perimeter Around a Groundwater Plume for a No Further Vapor Intrusion Assessment Decision
- Designing Storm Water Management into Solar Arrays on Contaminated Land
- Green Cleanup Certification Program
- Green Remediation Tech Support at Contaminated Sites
- Hydrogen Fuel Cell – Alternative Energy to Power Long Term Groundwater Remedy at Bayou Bonfouca Superfund Site
- Innovative Mine Remediation in the Upper Clear Creek Watershed: Design Analysis and Construction of Chemically Enhanced Best Management Practices (BPMs)
- Mallard North Landfill Innovative Energy Production, Hanover Park, IL
- Microbial Fuel Cell Technology - In Site Bioremediation of Petroleum Contaminated Sites
Hospitals
- Collaborative Partnership to Improve Environmental Performance in the Healthcare Sector
- Improving Management of Household Prescription Medication Waste
- Northwest Hospitals for a Healthy Environment (H2E) Recycling Pilot Program for Rural Hospitals
Land Revitalization
- Analysis of Vapor Intrusion Data to Establish an Appropriate Perimeter Around a Groundwater Plume for a No Further Vapor Intrusion Assessment Decision
- Brockton Brightfields, Innovative Green Power Marketing
- Entering Institutional Controls into One-Call Systems
- Fate and Effects of Dumpsite Leachate Contamination on Alaska’s Tribal Drinking Water Sources
- Groundwater Remediation Powered by Renewable Energy Sources
- Hydrogen Fuel Cell – Alternative Energy to Power Long Term Groundwater Remedy at Bayou Bonfouca Superfund Site
- Innovative Multi-Media Environmental Curriculum Pilot
- Performance and Sustainability of Mulch Biowalls for Environmental Cleanup
- Rail-Trail Conversion Resource Guide
- Sprout City South – A Component of the Smart City Charleston Program; An Innovative Proposal to Build Green Infrastructure and a Green Economy
- Unified Phased Site Assessments
- Use of Composts to Reduce Lead and Arsenic Soil Contamination
Local Government
Material Reuse
- Building Deconstruction and Reuse
- Creating a National Reuse Marketplace: A Search Engine Uniting Materials Exchanges
- Decision Analysis Tool for Managing Industrial Byproducts
- Deconstruction and Building with Reused Materials Training
- Deconstruction for Urban Revitalization
- Design for Disassembly in the Built Environment
- Developing a Policy to Faciliate the Use of Drum Top Crushing Devices for Fluorescent Lamps
- Industrial Phosphate Sludge Waste as a Raw Material for Iron Phosphate Glass
- Innovative Use of Recycled Materials to Increase Beneficial Use of Construction and Demolition (C&D) Debris Fines
- Potential Recycling of Medium Density Fiberboard
- Reusing Fly Ash to Produce a New Wastewater Treatment Chemical
- Tear-off Asphalt Shingles Recycling
- Testing the Viability of Converting Wood Pallet Waste-to-Flooring
- Using Auto Shredder Residue as Cement Manufacturing Feedstock
Packaging
Product Stewardship
- Automobiles and Product Stewardship: Issues and Opportunities for Material and Toxicity Neutral Personal Transportation
- Closing the E-Design – E-Scrap Loop
- Decision-Support Tool and Implementation Action Plans for Municipal Level Waste Management Practices to Reduce Greenhouse Gases
- eCommerce Packaging and Shipping Design and Design Challenge Call (PDF) (1 pg, 27K, About PDF)
- Greening Industrial Design
- National Paint Product Stewardship Dialogue
- Product Stewardship Institute - Research to Support National Dialog for Fluorescent Lighting
- Project PURE: Promoting Understanding of RFID and the Environment
- Promoting Innovative Green Infrastructure Concepts to R5 Stakeholders
- Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Tracking of Hazardous Materials across International Borders
- Sustainable Products Movement: Opportunity to Advance Materials Management Principles for Resource Conservation and GHG benefits
- Taking the NEWMOA Beneficial Use Determinations (BUDs) Database Nationwide
Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Automobiles and Product Stewardship: Issues and Opportunities for Material and Toxicity Neutral Personal Transportation
- Decision-Support Tool and Implementation Action Plans for Municipal Level Waste Management Practices to Reduce Greenhouse Gases
- Estimating Greenhouse Gas Reductions from Waste Prevention and Recycling: What to do when it’s not covered by WARM
- Renewable Energy Potential from Superfund Landfills
Waste to Energy
- Biomass Energy Conversion Study
- Costilla County Biodiesel Waste-to-Energy Demonstration
- Mallard North Landfill Innovative Energy Production, Hanover Park, IL
- Microbial Fuel Cell Technology - In Site Bioremediation of Petroleum Contaminated Sites
- Reducing Production Costs and Nitrogen Oxide Emissions from Biodiesel
- Renewable Energy Potential from Superfund Landfills
- Urban Waste to Fuel Initiative
- Waste to Energy Geographic Planning Tool
Other
- Financial Performance Benchmark for Recycling Businesses
- Voluntary Reductions in Dental Amalgam Mercury
If you have any questions please contact Jeff Kohn, EPA OSWER at (202) 566-1407, EPA’s Solid Waste and Emergency Response Innovations Coordinator.