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Collaboration
EPA is working hard to increase its collaboration with its stakeholders to achieve environmental results. Collaboration prompts people to work in a spirit of proactive cooperation and shared effort. These efforts lead to better, more effective outcomes, strengthen the partnerships with our stakeholders, and in the end, leading to mutually agreeable process for learning and problem solving.
Here are some of the key programs in OPPTS which use collaboration.
- Design for the Environment (DfE) - Promotes integrating cleaner, cheaper, and smarter solutions into everyday business practices.
- Green Buildings - Promotes the practice of creating healthier and more resource-efficient models of construction, renovation, operation, maintenance, and demolition. Research and experience increasingly demonstrate that when buildings are designed and operated with their lifecycle impacts in mind, they can provide great environmental, economic, and social benefits.
- Green Chemistry - Promotes innovative chemical technologies that reduce or eliminate the use or generation of hazardous substances in the design, manufacture, and use of chemical products.
- Green Suppliers Network (GSN) - GSN is a collaboration among industry and government that focuses on offering small and medium-sized manufacturers the best available technical assistance on Lean and Clean manufacturing techniques.
- Hospitals for a Healthy Environment (H2E) - A private-public partnership with the goal of eliminating mercury from the health care waste stream by 2005 and reducing the total volume of all types of waste generated in hospitals and health systems by one third by 2005 and by half by 2010.
- Pesticide Environmental Stewardship Program (PESP) - A voluntary program that forms partnerships with pesticide users to reduce the health and environmental risks associated with pesticide use and implement pollution prevention strategies.
- Pesticide Program Dialogue Committee (PPDC) - PPDC provides a forum for a diverse group of stakeholders to provide feedback to the pesticide program on various pesticide regulatory, policy and program implementation issues.
- Pollution Prevention (P2) - P2 means "source reduction," as defined under the Pollution Prevention Act, and other practices that reduce or eliminate the creation of pollutants.
- Strategic Agricultural Initiative (SAI) - Assists in Food Quality Protection Act implementation though an extensive and effective communication and partnership effort with regional pesticide user, teacher and researcher communities.
- Sustainable Futures (SF) - An approach that encourages pollution prevention in new chemical development.
