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Pollution Prevention

Pollution Prevention (P2) is a “front-end” method to decrease costs, risks, and environmental concerns. In contrast to managing pollution after it is created, P2 reduces or eliminates waste at its source. Once practices are in place, savings from P2 continue year after year.

P2 is a multimedia approach to solve environmental problems — it does not focus on pollution in a single, isolated medium such as air, water or land. Well-intentioned pollution control and management solutions sometimes remove pollutants from one medium only to transfer them, and their liabilities, to another.