Pollution Prevention in Action: Webinar Series with EPA Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention
Join to hear from businesses, Pollution Prevention (P2) 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 covers key sustainability topics from reducing/eliminating PFAS in products to source reduction solutions in industrial sectors.
Past Webinars
September 19, 2024: A Safer Choice for Cleaning: Increasing Access to Products with Safer Ingredients
This webinar covered how EPA’s Safer Choice program helps people find and have access to cleaning and other products made with safer ingredients and works in partnership with a broad range of stakeholders to prevent pollution. Speakers from industry, a nonprofit organization, academia and EPA discussed the growing impact of the Safer Choice program to increase use of safer ingredients throughout the value chain and how P2 practitioners can increase use and development of safer products.
July 10, 2024: Moving the Needle on Reuse: Reusable Food Service Ware (Part II)
This webinar continued the conversation from April's Part I webinar about reusable food service ware, an important strategy for preventing pollution. Reuse experts from across the country explained 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.
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.
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.