OFFICE OF WASTE MANAGEMENT RESOURCES

•Pollution Solutions provides on-line resources for business and industry for pollution prevention, waste reduction, recycling, waste exchange, environmental laws and regulations, and material safety data sheets (MSDS).

•Materials Safety Data Sheets: Identifying Product Hazards is a guidesheet that helps to interpret information on MSDS.

For additional assistance from the Offfice of Waste Management, email at owm@missouri.edu.

•Solid Waste Assessment Program (SWAP) is a waste assessment tool designed to help small- and medium-sized companies analyze and minimize solid waste generation.  The program incorporates an on-site review and analysis of business operations and is available through the Mid-America Manufacturing Technology Center (MAMTC).

•The University of Missouri Rolla Industrial Assessment Center (UMR-IAC) facilitates industrial assessments that identify opportunities for energy conservation, waste minimization and productivity enhancement, for small and medium-sized manufacturing facilities in Missouri and Eastern Illinois.

•Missouri Department of Natural Resources Technical Assistance Program (TAP) provides information, assistance, education and training on environmental issues including regulatory compliance and pollution prevention.

•Missouri Department of Natural Resources Hazardous Waste Program encourages the reduction of hazardous waste generation, regulates the management of hazardous wastes, and oversees the cleanup of hazardous waste contamination in the state.

•Small Business Research & Information Center helps Missouri's small businesses access up-to-date information on a variety of topics. Using the best and most current sources, the center gathers and helps analyze information needed to make well informed business decisions.

•Solid Waste Management Districts (SWMD) were formed to encourage regional, city and county cooperation in proper solid waste management. Districts develop programs to encourage waste reduction, recycling, and proper disposal methods.  To find out more about these activities in your area, contact the planner of you local solid waste management district.

•The Missouri Market Development Program promotes and assists recycling throughout Missouri by focusing economic development efforts on businesses which use materials recovered from solid waste in manufacturing operations. Contact MMDP at (573) 526-5555, or write to PO Box 744, Jefferson City, Missouri 65102-0744.


 

•Waste Wise is a free, voluntary, EPA program through which organizations eliminate costly municipal solid waste, benefiting their bottom line and the environment. Waste Wise is a flexible program that allows partners to design their own solid waste reduction programs tailored to their needs.   Waste Wise partner organizations can save thousands or millions of dollars by reducing, reusing, and recycling solid waste materials.

•The National Pollution Prevention Roundtable is the largest membership organization in the United States devoted solely to pollution prevention (P2). The mission of the Roundtable is to provide a national forum for promoting the development, implementation, and evaluation of efforts to avoid, eliminate, or reduce pollution at the source.

•Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics is an EPA sponsored web site that provides information on a variety of pollution prevention issues including legislation and policy, projects and programs, grants, and training/conferences.

•EPA Region 7 (Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska) web page addresses numerous topics including solid & hazardous waste management, enforcement & compliance, pollution prevention, toxics, and laws & regulations.