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Journal of Cleaner Production -- Special Issue
This special issue of the Journal of Cleaner Production -- Improving the health of the public, workers and the environment: twenty years of toxics use reduction -- celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Act of 1989 (TURA).
Most of the papers in this issue were presented at a symposium to commemorate ...
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Kidde-Fenwal. 1996.
By updating its coating operations with 1990s technologies including computer-programmed spray applications and ultraviolet (UV) curing, Kidde-Fenwal Incorporated reduced its air emissions by 75%, eliminated 20 drums per year of flammable waste, and reduced its production cycle by an entire day. The new system, which also reduced the amount of ...
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KMK Cleaners of Walpole Eliminates Use of Perc
KMK Cleaners switched from using perchloroethylene to professional wet cleaning technologies. The owners will demonstrate how the technology works on May 8, 2013.
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Korber Hats. 1997.
Korber Hats of Fall River, Massachusetts, a maker of custom straw and felt hats, has reduced emissions
of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) by 80,000 pounds, 44,000 pounds of which was eliminated
through process changes and chemical reformulation. The company, which was using 52,000 pounds of
toluene and 17,200 pounds of methyl ethyl ketone ...
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Lead Fact Sheet
Manufacturers use lead in many different products such as batteries, metal products, cables, ceramic glazes, pigments, and ammunition. Lead is a well-established human and environmental hazard. In 2004, Massachusetts manufacturers used more than 8.5 million pounds of lead and lead compounds, with electricity generation and the wire and cable in ...
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Lead Fishing Weight Exchange
A Boy Scout, with Troop 5 in Milton, obtained his Eagle Badge by working to remove 40 to 60 pounds of lead from the use of recreational fishing by attending fishing derbies and offering lead-free sinkers in exchange for lead sinkers.
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Lead Free Nanosoldering
Lead-Free Nanosolders on Reactive Substrates and Printed Circuit Boards
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Lead-Free Vineyard Fishing
The Lead-Free Vineyard Fishing project was enacted by the Wampanoag Tribe of Aquinnah.
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Learning from the Solutia EMS Experience. 2005.
TURI Methods and Policy Report No. 24.
The Solutia, Inc. Indian Orchard Plant in Springfield, Massachusetts (Solutia IO) is currently improving an existing environmental management system (EMS) and certifying it to the ISO 14001 standard, primarily because its customers are demanding it. Solutia is a leader in developing chemical application ...
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Lexington Community Toxic Waste Reduction Initiative
A Project of the Lexington Health Department
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Library
Toxics Use Reduction Institute Library at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Information on sustainable development, environmental health, pollution prevention, green chemistry, toxic chemicals, nanotechnology, worker safety and environmental management.
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Lightolier. 1997.
Lightolier has eliminated the use of approximately 1.25 million pounds of Trichloroethylene at their Fall River,
Massachusetts plant. The company found less toxic alternatives and modified their production process, which
eliminated more than 4 million pounds of air emissions, with savings of more than $2 million.
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Local Case: Perchloroethylene in Dry Cleaning. 2006.
Perc was introduced as a drycleaning solvent in the late 1930s. It first replaced other synthetic solvents, and then gradually replaced petroleum derived solvents until it became the dominant solvent in the early 1960s. Perc was effective, reusable, noncorrosive, inexpensive, nonflammable and less toxic than existing alternatives. After regulat ...
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Look Park Transitions to a Pesticide-Free Land Care Management Strategy
Team members of Look Memorial Park transitioned 35,000 square feet of lawn to organic management and educated the public on the importance of organic lawncare.
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Lowell-area Autobody Shops to Use Grants
Nov. 9, 2012, Lowell Sun, article about TURI working with auto repair and body shops in Lowell and some other Bay State cities to reduce use of harmful chemicals with an $82K grant from the Environmental Protection Agency.
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Making Progress Toward Sustainable Societies in the Context of Global Climate Change
Presentation by Dr. Donald Huisingh, senior scientist at The Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment at the University of Tennessee, and Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier’s Journal of Cleaner Production, on his perspective of attaining sustainable societies with an emphasis on ten increasingly important issues affecting sustainability, a C ...
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