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Categorization of the Toxics Use Reduction List of Toxic and Hazardous Substances. 1999.
Methods and Policy Report No. 18. The lists of more hazardous, less hazardous and uncategorized chemicals are used by the Toxics Use Reduction Program to aid in setting priorities and to serve as guidance for companies making chemical substitution decisions.
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Center Pond Weed Project
The Center Pond Weed Project conducted hand pulling of invasive species in Center Pond in Becket to work towards the goal of eliminating the use of harmful herbicides in the local swimming lake.
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Champions of Toxics Use Reduction Awards
Honoring Champions of Toxics Use Reduction at a Massachusetts State House ceremony.
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Chapter 4. Formaldehyde
Alternatives assessment for formaldehyde from the Five Chemicals Study, 2005.
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Chemical Lists
TURI supports the Science Advisory Board and the TURA Administrative Council in work to designate up to 10 higher hazard substances and up to 10 lower hazard substances per year. The goal of this program is to help Massachusetts companies and communities focus their toxics use reduction efforts on those chemicals that pose the most serious thre ...
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Chemicals Policy
TURI's chemicals policy program develops initiatives to reduce the use of toxic chemicals and the generation of toxic byproducts by industry and communities, while enhancing the competitiveness of Massachusetts industry.
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Chemicals Used in Massachusetts
Companies that report the use of a toxic material are required to report how much of the toxic is used in all the different processes at the company. From the point of view of TURA reporting, companies report the use of toxics in two broad categories: how the toxic material is used, and what happens to it after it is used.
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Chilled Water/Thermal Ice Storage
Texas Instruments energy efficiency case study
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Choosing Safer Alternatives
Overview of the systematic transition to safer processes, materials, and products; includes information on the Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Act. Presented by Liz Harriman of TURI.
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Clean Production In Action: Assessing Alternatives for Materials and Products
Oveview of methods for clean production that include four product design areas to aid in toxics use reduction, with available tools and MA state aid programs for assistance: 1) Design for the Environment, 2) Green Chemistry, 3) Green Engineering, 4) Alternatives Assessment. Presented by Pam Eliason of TURI at the 2009 Toxics Action Center (TA ...
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Cleaning urethane, ink and paint manufacturing vessels. 1997.
In 1995, Raffi and Swanson, Inc. received a $20,000 grant from the Massachusetts Toxics
Use Reduction Institute (TURI) to examine alternatives to toxic solvents in the company’s cleaning
operations. Raffi and Swanson set a project goal of reducing chemical use and byproducts from
these cleaning operations by 50%. Raffi and Swanson met this g ...
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