GreenScapes | Wastes

still shot of Jean Schwab, GreenScapes Program Manager

Watch the video: EPA GreenScapes Program Manager, Jean Schwab, discusses environmentally-friendly lawn and garden tips for fall at EPA's GreenScapes exhibit at the National Botanic Garden.
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EPA's GreenScapes program provides cost-efficient and environmentally friendly solutions for landscaping. Designed to help preserve natural resources and prevent waste and pollution, GreenScapes encourages companies, government agencies, other entities, and homeowners to make more holistic decisions regarding waste generation and disposal and the associated impacts on land, water, air, and energy use.

This Web site provides information on GreenScaping and the GreenScapes Partnership program, including:

GreenScapes for Large-scale Landscapes - GreenScapes for Large-scale Landscapes offers commercial and government land managers information and resources to GreenScape their large-scale landscapes.
GreenScapes for Homeowners - GreenScapes for Homeowners provides homeowners with information and resources to improve the health and appearance of their lawns and gardens.
Where You Live - Includes links to state and EPA regional information.
Benefits - GreenScaping can help you save money, reduce waste, conserve water, save energy, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reduce your environmental footprint.
How to GreenScape - Includes tips to GreenScape large-scale landscapes.
GreenScape Partners and Allies - The GreenScapes Partnership program aims to combine government and industry into a powerful, unified influence over the reduction, reuse, and recycling of waste materials in large land use applications.
Success Stories - Learn about public agencies, private companies, and commercial landscapers using environmentally beneficial landscaping techniques.
Newsroom - Provides news, highlights a GreenScapes partner or ally, lists any upcoming conferences and events, and contains links to periodical articles.
Resources - Contains publications, guidance, and research documents as well as on-line calculator tools that can aid in your decision making and implementation of more sustainable landscape design, construction, and operations & maintenance.
Links - Provides Web links to additional information related to sustainable landscape design, construction, and maintenance.

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