Opportunity Assessments

Pollution Prevention Opportunity Assessments (PPOAs) can be used to examine processes that produce waste and find ways to reduce or eliminate waste streams. Solutions may include process changes, equipment modification, chemical substitutions, recycling, or inventory management. The Department of Energy (DOE) endorses the PPOA system of analysis, and many facilities in the DOE complex have saved money by reducing the amount of money spent on managing waste streams.