Hi Mark, I've attached a report we did on materials accounting a decade ago for the National Pollution Prevention Roundtable and participating companies from the Business Roundtable. The report was the result of a collaborative effort of the companies, NPPR, and state government and NGO participants. Bob Kerr Pure Strategies, Inc. 2634 Wild Cherry Place Reston, VA 20191 703-476-0710 rkerr at purestrategies.com On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Mark Snyder <snyde043 at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm researching a question posed to us by one of Minnesota's state > legislators about materials accounting data. > > Basically, she's wondering whether Minnesota should follow New Jersey's and > Massachusetts' leads in requiring such data from manufacturers and other > industrial facilities. > > What I'm looking for is any evidence that such a requirement leads to > greater progress in pollution prevention than in states like Minnesota that > only require Toxic Release Inventory data reporting. > > Anyone have any leads they can share with me? > > Sincerely, > > > Mark Snyder > > Senior Pollution Prevention Specialist > > Environmental Economic Development Unit > > Prevention and Assistance Division > > Minnesota Pollution Control Agency > > mark.snyder at state.mn.us > > > > Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. > > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * > > p2tech is hosted by the Great Lakes Information Network (GLIN): > http://www.great-lakes.net > > To search the archive: http://www.great-lakes.net/lists/p2tech/ > > All views and opinions presented above are solely those of the author > or attributed source and do not necessarily reflect those of GLIN or > the Great Lakes Commission. > > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.great-lakes.net/lists/p2tech/attachments/20091020/5c6c2a3a/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Materials Accounting Phase 1 report -- prepared by Kerr-Greiner-Anderson&April for NPPR & Business Roundtable.rtf Type: application/rtf Size: 1285292 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.great-lakes.net/lists/p2tech/attachments/20091020/5c6c2a3a/attachment.rtf