Waste Minimization

The EPA developed the Waste Minimization National Plan to encourage waste minimization nationwide. This initiative promotes a long-term national effort to minimize the generation of hazardous chemicals in wastes regulated under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). It emphasizes "source reduction" (reducing waste at its source, before it is even generated) and "environmentally sound recycling" over waste treatment and disposal. The goals of the National Plan are to reduce the most persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic (PBT) chemicals in the nation's hazardous waste by 25 percent by the year 2000 and 50 percent by 2005. EPA is developing ways to track individual progress toward these national goals.

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Waste Minimization Home Page

Phone: 703-308-8438

EPA Region 7 Information and Contacts

For more information on activities ongoing within EPA Region 7 (Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska), contact:

Gary Bertram
Phone: 913-551-7533

Pat Murrow
Phone: 913-551-7627

Waste Minimization

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