Pollution Prevention in Action: Webinar Series with EPA Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention
Join Jennie Romer, EPA's Deputy Assistant Administrator for Pollution Prevention, on the second Wednesday of the month as we hear from businesses, Pollution Prevention grantees, and other experts about innovations and successes in implementing source reduction strategies to advance sustainability across sectors. The Agency’s Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention webinar series will run through August 2024, covering key sustainability topics from reducing/eliminating PFAS in products to source reduction solutions in industrial sectors.
July 10, 2024, 2-3 p.m. ET: Moving the Needle on Reuse: Reusable Food Service Ware (Part II)
Join Jennie Romer, EPA’s Deputy Assistant Administrator for Pollution Prevention, and EPA's Environmentally Preferable Purchasing program on July 10, 2024, from 2-3 p.m. ET, for a webinar to continue the conversation about reusable food service ware, an important strategy for preventing pollution. Hear from reuse experts from across the country on how businesses, cities, states, and non-profits are working together to scale reuse in their communities, including a community-wide reusable food service ware system in Hilo, Hawai’i supported through an EPA Pollution Prevention grant.
Hosted by: Jennie Romer, EPA’s Deputy Assistant Administrator for Pollution Prevention
Speakers:
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Pat Kaufman, PR3
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Margie Bell, Recirclable
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Joycelyn Chui, Seattle Public Utilities
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Jennifer Navarra, Zero Waste Hawai'i Island
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Alison Rogers Cove, USEFULL
In April, EPA held Part I of Moving the Needle on Reuse: Reusable Food Service Ware. View the recording of the April webinar.
Additional webinars will be added soon!
Past Webinars
June 12, 2024: Putting the Brakes on Pollution in Automotive Maintenance and Repair
This webinar explored the successes and challenges preventing pollution in automotive maintenance and repair. The webinar highlighted pollution prevention projects funded by EPA that have reduced the use of toxic substances, conserved natural resources and increased the use of cleaner solvents at automotive maintenance and repair businesses. Speakers included EPA pollution prevention grantees, including state agencies and public universities.
A recording of the webinar will be available soon.
May 8, 2024: Reducing PFAS in Products: Progress and Challenges
This webinar examined EPA’s PFAS Strategic Roadmap and a new online tool for EPA’s Recommendations of Specifications, Standards, and Ecolabels for Federal Purchasing that highlights how standards and ecolabels address PFAS. Speakers from EPA, EPA grantees, and a nonprofit organization discussed the progress they have made to increase the availability and use of products without PFAS, and the challenges that remain.
April 10, 2024: Moving the Needle on Reuse: Reusable Food Service Ware (Part 1)
This webinar covered the growing use of reusable food service ware, an important strategy for preventing pollution, how EPA is supporting businesses and nonprofit organizations to incorporate reusable food service ware into their operations and how sports and entertainment venues are replacing single-use plastic with reusables.
March 13, 2024: Using EPA’s Sustainable Procurement Tools to Achieve Sustainability Goals
This webinar focused on how EPA’s sustainable procurement tools can help government and institutional purchasers meet sustainability goals and mandates and reviewed a new interactive tool for EPA’s Recommendations of Specifications, Standards, and Ecolabels, showing how it can identify the ecolabels that address PFAS and plastics. Industry experts and EPA grantees spoke about how they incorporate these resources in their work.