Industry Partnerships

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sponsors a wide variety of industry partnership and stewardship programs that aim to reduce the impact of industrial activities on the environment. Below are links to these programs as well as those for specific industry sectiors.

• EPA Industry Partnership Programs
  Provides information on our array of voluntary programs and describes the benefits of joining.
• Design for Environment (DfE) Program
  The DfE Progam works with industrial sectors to reduce the chemical exposure risk through pollution prevention activities.
  
• EPA Sectors Strategies Program
  Aims to achieve performance improvement and regulatory burden reduction in key industry sectors.
• EPA Voluntary Partnership Programs FAQs
  Frequently asked questions about EPA's voluntary partnership programs.
• Green Power Partnership
  The Green Power Partnership encourages organizations to purchase green power as a way to reduce the environmental impacts associated with conventional electricity use
• Mercury Challenge
  Promotes the voluntary, systematic elimination of mercury-containing equipment from industrial and other sites.
• National Waste Minimization Program
  The National Waste Minimization Program supports efforts that promote a more sustainable society, reduce the amounts of waste generated, and lower the toxicity and persistence of those wastes that are, of necessity, generated.
• Pesticide Environmental Stewardship Program
  A voluntary program that forms partnerships with pesticide users to reduce the potential health and environmental risks associated with pesticide use and implement pollution prevention strategies.
• Product Stewardship
  This EPA program focuses on having manufacturers, retailers, users, and disposers share in the responsibility for reducing the environment impacts of consumer products.
• Resource Conservation Challenge (RCC)
  Provides information about the Resource Conservation Challenge (RCC). The RCC is a national effort to conserve natural resources and energy by managing materials more efficiently.
  
• Voluntary Aluminum Industrial Partnership (VAIP)
  A pollution prevention program developed jointly by EPA and the primary aluminum industry. Participating companies work with EPA to improve aluminum production efficiency while reducing perfluorocarbon (PFC) emissions, potent greenhouse gases that remain in the atmosphere for thousands of years.
• Waste Wise Program
  WasteWise is a free, voluntary, EPA program through which organizations eliminate costly municipal solid waste and select industrial wastes, benefiting their bottom line and the environment.