| Title: |
Green Remediation Best Management Practices: Integrating Renewable Energy into Site Cleanup
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| Resource Type: |
document --> guidance / decision support
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| Country: |
USA
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| Year: |
2011 |
| Availability: |
EPA 542-F-11-006
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| Author 1/Producer: |
US Environmental protection Agency (US EPA)
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| Author / Producer Type: |
Agency, regulator or other governmental or inter-governmental body
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EUGRIS Keyword(s): |
Contaminated land-->Remediation options-->Recycling/reuse
Contaminated land-->Remediation options-->Remediation options overview
Contaminated land-->Wider impacts / sustainability-->Sustainable / green remediation
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| Short description: |
he U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Principles for Greener
Cleanups outline the Agency's policy for evaluating and
minimizing the environmental 'footprint ' of activities
undertaken when cleaning up a contaminated site. Use of the best
management practices (BMPs) identified in EPA's series of green
remediation fact sheets can help project managers and other
stakeholders apply the principles on a routine basis, while
maintaining the cleanup objectives, ensuring protectiveness of a
remedy, and improving its environmental outcome. Use of
renewable energy resources provides a significant opportunity to
reduce the environmental footprint of activities conducted
during investigation, remediation, and monitoring of hazardous
waste sites. Substitution of energy from fossil fuel resources
with energy from renewable resources is a primary approach for
addressing energy as one of the five core elements of green
remediation strategies. In turn, lower consumption of fossil
fuel will reduce emission of greenhouse gases (GHG) as well as
particulate matter and other air pollutants (April 2011, 8
pages)
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Submitted By:
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Professor Paul Bardos WhoDoesWhat?
Last update: 01/05/2011
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