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1. "Greening Campuses"

Web sites:

Laboratories for the 21st Centuty (EPA's Labs21)	http://www.epa.gov/labs21century/index.html
Second Nature	http://www.2nature.org
National Wildlife Federation - Campus Ecology	http://www.nwf.org/campus/
EPA Solid Waste and Recycling Site	http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/recycle/
The Cygnus Group (lots of good links)	http://www.cygnus-group.com/
Institute for Sustainable Development on Campus	http://iisd1.iisd.ca/educate/
University Leaders for a Sustainable Future	http://www.ulsf.org/
College and University Recycling Council	http://earthsystems.org/curc/curc.html
INFORM, Inc. (Making Less Garbage on Campus)	http://www.informinc.org/

Book:

Ecodemia : Campus Environmental Stewardship at the Turn of the 21st Century : Lessons in Smart Management from Administrators, Staff, and Students by Julian Keniry. out of print

Guides to Pollution Prevention: Research and Educational Institutions EPA-625/7-90-010
Order from http://www.epa.gov/ttbnrmrl/625/7-90/010.htm

2. Laboratory Hazardous Waste Minimization

Web sites:

University of Illinois - Champaign/Urbana

http://www.ehs.uiuc.edu/~chem/guide/guide.html

has Waste Minimization Fact Sheets including:

• 101 Ways to Reduce Hazardous Waste in the Laboratory;
• Alternatives to Chromic Acid Cleaning Solution;
• Alternatives to Mercury and Mercury Compounds;
• Alternatives to DNA Preps with Chloroform Extractions;
• Pollution Prevention in Laboratories: The How To Guide;
• Neutralization of Strong Acids and Bases;

http://www.seattle.battelle.org/services/e&s/P2LabMan/

Laboratory Waste Minimization and Pollution Prevention includes a waste minimization checklist	http://www.p2pays.org/ref/01/text/00779/index2.htm
Ohio EPA Office of Pollution Prevention paper on Research and Educational Labratory Waste Reduction	http://www.epa.ohio.gov/opp/lab.html

Books:

Pollution Prevention and Waste Minimization in Laboratories by Peter A. Reinhardt (Editor), K. Leigh Leonard (Editor), Peter C. Ashbrook (Editor) Price: $89.95 Hardcover - 512 pages (January 1996) Lewis Publishers, Inc.; ISBN: 0873719751

Pollution Prevention Opportunity Assessments for Research and Development Laboratories by Jill Engel-Cox, Kim Fowler List Price: $29.95. Paperback (June 1999) Battelle Pr; ISBN: 1574770705

Magazine:

Chemical Health and Safety published by the Division of Chemical Health and Safety, American Chemical Society. Includes a regular column by Peter Ashbrook on hazardous waste minimization, as well as feature articles on the issue

3. Regulatory Issues

Book:

Environmental Management Guide for Small Laboratories EPA Publication Number 233-B-098-001

http://www.epa.gov/sbo/labguide.htm

Newsletter:

Laboratory Safety and Environmental Management, published by Prizim Inc.. Brief articles on regulatory and other laboratory issues. Free issue available from (301) 840-9316. Subscription $250/year

Web site:

Laboratory XL page

/labxl

Information about the New England Universities Project XL effort and related issues.
There is also an Lab-XL e-mail list. To subscribe, send SUB LAB-XL your name to or visit http://list.uvm.edu/archives/lab-xl.html

4. Professional Organizations

Campus Safety, Health and Environmental Management Association. Division of the National Safety Council. Conducts an annual summer meeting and performs a benchmarking survey of higher educational institutions.

Laboratory Consortium for Environmental Excellence. Group of New England schools which meet for information sharing on pollution prevention and regulatory relations. Sponsor of New England Laboratories Project XL.

American Chemical Society:

- Division of Chemical Health and Safety. Meets twice annually and publishes a bi-monthly journal mentioned above

- Task Force on Laboratory Waste Management (LABWAM). For more than fifteen years, this group of laboratory safety experts and environmental consultants has focused on reforming the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) so that it adequately addresses the needs of educational and research laboratories.

Links to Information about Laboratory Regulations and Programs

Lab XL mailing list

5. University Hazardous Waste pages

University of Vermont: A waste program with a Part B permitted facility

Harvard University: Includes waste information specific to Massachusetts

Univ of Massachusetts, Amherst

Univ of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign: Contains a large amount of Laboratory Waste Minimization information

Univ of Wisconsin - Madison

Univ of Minnesota: includes an on-line hazardous waste manual

Stanford University: also includes an on-line hazardous waste manual

University of Wyoming: home of an aggressive hazardous waste minimization program, including 89 ways to reduce laboratory waste