Waste Prevention Information Exchange

United States Federal Government Waste Prevention Information

Have you ever gotten lost trying to find waste prevention information provided by the U.S. Federal Government? The lists below are some of main sources that what we know about. This is not intended to be a complete list of waste prevention information provided by the Federal Government, but please let us know if you find any more good ones that we should post here. These and other Federal sources of information are incorporated into the various topic and subtopic pages of this information exchange.

Table of Contents

United States Environmental Protection Agency

• Documents
• Web Sites

United States Government Printing Office

• Web Sites

Other Resources

• Web Sites

United States Environmental Protection Agency

Documents

• Catalog of Hazardous and Solid Waste Publications
• Publications on the EPA Site—List of publications categorized primarily according to U.S. EPA Offices and Programs.
• Solid Waste Publications—Publications listed alphabetically.

Web Sites

• Browse EPA Topics—Organizes EPA topics into broad categories.
• Hospitals for a Healthy Environment (H2E)
• National Environmental Publications Internet Site—Access to the full text of over 10,000 EPA publications.
• National Waste Minimization Program
• Office of Solid Waste (OSW) Homepage
  • Office of Solid Waste Topics—Index of topics.
• Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products (PPCPs) as Environmental Pollutants
• Pollution Prevention Homepage
  • Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics
    • Pollution Prevention Information Clearinghouse
      • Pollution Prevention Information Clearinghouse Resource List

United States Government Printing Office

Web Sites

• GPO Access—Disseminates official information from all three branches of the Federal Government.
  • A-Z Resource List—An index of searchable databases.
  • Search Across Multiple Databases

Other Resources

Web Sites

• SearchGov.Com—More of a list of agency Web sites than an actual search tool, but it is a pretty through list of United States Federal agency acronyms.