Why not try setting up a coalition of the regulatory/government agencies and the large(r) companies in the area to assist other companies in P2 efforts. In Palm Beach County we have done this. You gain the experience of large company P2 programs (most of them are very active and effective) and agency personnel experience and provide the information to the middle and small sized businesses in each coalition area. We work with surrounding county programs in co-sponsoring programs along with having provided 2 conferences and 8 business sector workshops in the last three years. We also have a local university as part of the coalition. Although we do not have any quantifiable results we have gotten great response from the area businesses. This response has been in increasing attendance to workshops and in comments about the workshop content. The low key, non-regulatory approach (everything goes out under the P2 Coalition letterhead) seems to be working well and the interaction of both the regulatory (state and county) agengies and industry has been beneficial to everyone. We, the coalition, also have a web site through the Florida Atlantic University membership on the coalition. The site for this is http://www.oe.fau.edu/~pollute/ and is intended as another tool to get P2 information out to those who are interested but are without large staffs to collect and do P2 work. Thanks, Dale Francke Pratt & Whitney, M/S 717-03 P.O. Box 109600 W. Palm Beach, FL 33410-9600 e-mail : frncked@pwfl.com (561) 796-3733 FAX (561) 796-2787 ---------- From: Brian Wanzenried[SMTP:BW15135@navix.net] Sent: Friday, January 09, 1998 4:43 PM To: p2tech@great-lakes.net Subject: Re: Targeting top TRI reporters for reductions Cindy McComas: When I was working for the EPA, we used a similar idea to target facilities for audits. It is a good idea and can yield good results. Theoretically, you can make the most difference at a facility that is releasing a lot of chemicals. However, we had one major problem with the concept. The companies reporting large quantities of releases are often better at quantifying releases. The large companies have environmental staffs that can adequately estimate their releases. The large environmental staff also allows the large companies to deal with their emissions. We found the smaller companies without large environmental staffs, and the companies that do not report releases had more problems and we were able to make more of a difference with them. However, our time spent at the companies reporting high quantities of releases was not wasted. We learned a great deal from these companies and we were able to share these ideas with other companies. Another problem with the theory is, for many large companies, the emissions are coming from numerous processes across their facility. We were unable to go into their facility and find one big problem that was causing the large quantity of releases. If a facility did not have an environmental commitment from management, then we were able to make a diffence. Other than management commitment, auditing a large company with a large amount of releases was no more productive than auditing a small company with a small amount of releases. I hope this helps, Brian Wanzenried
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