1. Introduction
  2. What are Waste Minimization and Pollution Prevention?
  3. Why are Waste Minimization and Pollution Prevention Important?
  4. Purchasing Chemicals
  5. Managing Chemical Inventories
  6. Dealing with an Existing Inventory of Unwanted Chemicals
  7. Conducting Experiments
  8. Scaling Down Experiments
  9. Substituting Materials
  10. Alternatives to Wet Chemistry
  11. Reusing and Recycling Chemical Resources
  12. Segregating Waste Streams
  13. In-Laboratory Treatment of Wastes
  14. Working with School Administrators, Students, Other Schools, and the Community
  15. »Getting More Information«
  16. Appendix A—Waste Minimization Checklist
 Here is a list of organizations and publications that may be of help to you as you establish your pollution prevention program.

Organizations

  • National Science Foundation – (703) 306-1234
  • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (there are regional offices throughout the country)
  • State government departments involved with environmental management, which usually have names such as Department of Environmental Conservation, Department of Health, or Department of Environmental Quality
  • College Chemistry Programs and Pollution Prevention Programs.
  • American Chemical Society, 1155 – 16th Street NW, Washington, DC 20036

Publications: Laboratory Waste Minimization

American Chemical Society. (1993). Less is better: Laboratory chemical waste management for waste reduction (2nd ed.). Washington, DC: Author.

American Chemical Society (1994). Laboratory Waste Management: A Guidebook. Washington, DC: Author

American Chemical Society (1995). Model Chemical Hygiene Plan for High Schools. Washington, DC: Author. Available on disk: MacOS or MS-DOS.

Environmental Protection Agency. (1990, June). Guides to pollution prevention: Research and educational institutions. Cincinnati: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Field, R.A. (1986). Management strategies and technologies for the minimization of chemical wastes from laboratories. Raleigh: North Carolina Pollution Prevention Pays Program.

Illinois Department of Natural Resources. (1990, May). Waste reduction guide for Illinois schools. Springfield, IL: Author.

Kaufman, J.A. (Ed.). (1990). Waste Disposal in Academic Institutions. Chelsea, MI: Lewis Publishers, Inc.

National Research Council. (1983). Prudent practices for disposal of chemicals from laboratories. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.

Jacobson, L. (no date). Children’s art hazards. New York: Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.

State of Washington School Chemistry Lab/Storeroom Safety Committee. (1984). Who should conduct high school lab/store room cleanups and assure safe disposal? Contact James Knudson, Washington State Department of Ecology, Hazardous Waste Section, (206) 459-6203.

Task Force on RCRA. (1990). The waste management manual for laboratory for personnel. Washington, DC: American Chemical Society.

Wahl, G.H., Jr. (Ed.). (no date). Reduction of hazardous waste from high school chemistry laboratories. Raleigh: Pollution Prevention Pays Program, North Carolina Department of Natural Resources and Community Development.

Publications: General Waste Minimization

Freeman, H.M. (Ed.). (1990). Hazardous waste minimization. New York: McGraw-Hill Publishing Company.

National Renewable Energy Laboratory. (no date). WasteWorld: Teaching students about municipal solid waste. Municipal Waste Resource Management Program—Project Fact Sheet. Golden, CO: Author.

National Research Council. (1985). Reducing hazardous waste generation: An evaluation and a call for action. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.

Tulis, J.J., & Thomann, W.R. (Eds.). (1992). Proceedings: Strategies for Improved Chemical and Biological Waste Management for Hospitals and Clinical Laboratories. Raleigh: Office of Waste Reduction, North Carolina Department of Environment, Health and Natural Resources.

Publications: Laboratory Manuals

Bergstrom, W., & Howells, M. (1988). Hazardous waste reduction for chemical instruction laboratories. Cincinnati: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

College of the Redwoods. (1989). No-waste lab manual for educational institutions. Sacramento: California Department of Toxic Substances Control.

Ehrenkranz, D.F. (1993). Chemistry in microscale: a set of microscale laboratory experiments. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co.

Ehrenkranz, D.F. (1993). Chemistry in microscale: a set of microscale laboratory experiments with teacher guides. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co.

Flinn Scientific (1994). Spectrophotometer Laboratory Manual. Batavia.

Hathaway, R.A. (Ed.). (1991). Safety considerations in microscale chemistry laboratories. Symposium at the 197th national meeting of the American Chemical Society, April 12, 1989, Dallas. Washington, DC: American Chemical Society.

Mayo, D.W., Pike, R.M., Trumper, P.K., & Fickett, P. M. (1994). Instructor’s Manual, Microscale Techniques for the Organic Laboratory. Third Edition. New York. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Mayo, D.W., Pike, R.M., & Trumper, P.K. (1994). Microscale Organic Laboratory with Multistep and Multiscale Syntheses (3rd ed.). New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Mayo, D.W., Pike, R.M., Butcher, S.S., & Trumper, P.K. (1991). Microscale Techniques for the Organic Laboratory. New York. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Mayo, D.W., Pike, R.M., & Butcher, S.S. (1989). Microscale Organic Laboratory (2nd ed.). New York. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Pavia, D.L., Lampman, G.M., Kriz, G.S., & Engel, R.G. (1990). Introduction to Organic Laboratory Techniques: A Microscale Approach. Philadelphia: Saunders College Publishing.

Pike, R.M. (Winter 1994). Microscale Chemistry - Small Scale, Big Idea. EM Scientist, 3(1), pp. 1-2.

Szafran, Z., Pike, R.M., & Singh. (1991). Microscale inorganic chemistry: A comprehensive laboratory experience. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Waterman, E.L. (1993). Small scale chemistry laboratory manual. Menlo Park, CA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co.

Waterman, E.L. (1993). Addison-Wesley small scale chemistry. Menlo Park, CA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co.

Williamson, K.L. (1989). Macroscale and Microscale Organic Experiments. Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath and Company.

Online Resources

http://host.silvertech.com/microscale/index.html" - National Microscale Chemistry Center — Web site for Merrimack College's Microscale Chemistry Center, dealing with the use of microscale chemistry as a pollution prevention technique.

Pollution Prevention in Chemical Laboratory Instruction — Summary of Laboratory P2 project at the University of Minnesota.

Pollution Prevention and Waste Minimization In Laboratories — Summary of a book by CRC Press on P2 in Laboratory settings

National Pollution Prevention Center for Higher Education — Home page for the National Pollution Prevention Center for Higher Education (NPPC), which is established to help educators integrate P2 into the curriculum. A good source for readings and curricular materials.

Related Pollution Prevention Homepages

Great resource on laboratory pollution prevention developed for use at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Includes "101 Ways to Reduce Waste in the Laboratory."


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