Resources

General Guidance

Acronyms: List of related acronyms to this industry and project.

Cost Analysis for Pollution Prevention: Use Ecology’s guidance about cost analysis on the implementation of pollution prevention techniques and technologies.

MP&M Information: Find out more about the Proposed Metal Products and Machinery Rule.

P2 Links: List of external sites that contain additional information about the metal finishing and pollution prevention ideas.

Publications: Additional information for electroplaters from the US EPA and Merit Partnership

Strategy Development: Evaluate what opportunities will work for your company, and strategies to begin implementation.

Training Video: EPA Region 9 developed a training video for electroplaters, available in Spanish and English.

Workshops

Cleaner Production Challenge: Summary of the Cleaner Production Challenge workshop held in Seattle, Washington on May 15, 2002.

Advanced workshop: Summary of the Advanced Cleaner Production Challenge workshop held in Seattle, Washington on November 19, 2002.

Spreadsheets

Baseline Data: Track your resource use in this Excel Workbook. It allows you to compare your annual consumption and costs. Includes water, electricity, natural gas, wastewater and sludge.

Bath Dumping: Calculate the potential savings of dumping only half of a bath at a time, instead of a full bath dump. Also see the benefits of regular bath additions.

Bath Monitoring: Use this Excel Workbook to determine the maximum allowable conductivity for your final rinse tank.

Conductivity Conversion: Determine the estimated concentration of chemicals in your final rinse tank based on its conductivity.

Countercurrent Rinse: Determine the potential savings of adding an additional rinse tank into your process line.

Log Sheets: Track your treatment using this Excel Workbook, or print it out to use as a written log.

P2 FINANCE: Pollution Prevention Financial Analysis and Cost Evaluation System put together by Tellus and EPA.