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Automotive Compliance Information Hotels Waste Reduction Partners
CCAR Web site helps the automotive service and repair industry identify flexible, common sense ways to comply with environmental requirements. The Green Plan for Hotels is an initiative for hospitality and lodging properties. The initiative targets waste reduction, recycling, energy and water conservation. WRP provides WNC businesses and industries with no-cost waste and energy reduction assessments and technical assistance.
     
Banned Landfill Materials Mercury Water Conservation
Find out information on which materials are banned from disposal in landfills in North Carolina and how to start programs to recycle the materials. Information included about general mercury information, information on the health effects of mercury, mercury emissions, how to perform a mercury audit and mercury reduction options. Resources to help commercial, industrial and institutional facilities develop short- and long-term water conservation goals.
     
Best References: P2 Information On-site Waste Assessments N.C. Biomass Trader
A collection of pollution prevention information including technical references, fact sheets and case studies for selected industry sectors. DPPEA can help your facility reduce its waste generation and waste management costs through personalized waste assessments. This exchange service is designed to provide a marketplace for biomass materials that can be used in bio-based manufacturing, converted to energy, or used in energy generating processes or technologies.
     
Electronics Restaurants NC WasteTrader
How to manage discarded electronic products. Information includes regulatory and policy issues, as well as business electronics discard guidance. Designed to help commercial and non-commercial food service providers reduce waste generation, practice pollution prevention and conserve energy and natural resources. This waste exchange service is designed to divert recoverable materials from disposal while providing feedstocks to potential users.
     
Energy Conservation Training Opportunities NC Markets Directory
Resources to help businesses and industries take steps to begin saving on energy costs now and actions to take for future energy savings. Click HERE for the State Energy Office. DPPEA provides waste reduction, EMS and pollution prevention training for industry, government entites and citizen groups. A searchable directory of more than 600 companies that collect, transport, broker, process or remanufacture recovered materials.
     
Fluorescent Lights    
Fluorescent lamps and HIDs contain mercury and should be handled and recycled carefully.    
     
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