Pollution Prevention

"The Pollution Prevention Act of 1990 made Pollution Prevention (P2) the national environmental policy of the United States" according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Pollution Prevention means "preventing or reducing waste where it originates, at the source." Much progress has been made in source reduction, as a pollution prevention policy.

Yet pollution, in the form of animal and food wastes, still happens on a massive scale. And this creates a pollution prevention industry. EPTC is an industry leader, doing something about the waste material that is inevitably produced, at the source, before it becomes a problem.

Few solutions and fewer dollars are aimed at the pollution still created at the source. Overall, most of the money spent to date is on downstream solutions where the damage (pollution) has already been done.

EPTC's Closed-loop Waste Management System is designed and has been implemented and tested at the source of the dairy waste problem -- on the farm -- at three demonstration sites.