Pollution Prevention Goals - FY2011

• Facilitate the implementation of a chemical inventory systems within the Chemistry department to promote chemical reuse/sharing and just-in-time ordering of reagents to facilitate compliance with building fire code limits for certain chemical reagents within the new laboratory building.
• Encourage replacing wet-chemistry photography darkrooms with digital studios.
• Transition laboratories with high volume organic solvent usage to replace thermal distillation systems with waste minimizing, utility conserving, intrinsically safe dry column purification system.
  
• Conduct formal pollution prevention opportunity assessments in the lab and facilities groups producing the largest volumes of waste.
  
• Complete switch to returnable lecture bottles.
  
• Encourage the practice of regenerating toxic gas scrubber units to avoid costly disposal of canister.
• Continue to promote "just-in-time" chemical purchases within lab groups campus-wide.