Golisano Institute for Sustainability
Pollution Prevention Institute
Developing and disseminating technologies and processes to assist companies in reducing pollution and hazardous waste production.
The Pollution Prevention Institute now features its own website. For an overview read below, or go to the official P2I site for even more information.
The Pollution Prevention Institute (P2I) is a comprehensive training and applied research center designed to enhance understanding of pollution prevention techniques while also disseminating technologies to enhance these efforts. P2I offers on-site technical assistance, research and development, technology transfer, and education to assist companies in decreasing - and in some cases eliminating - the production of air and solid waste as well as reducing the use of hazardous materials.
P2I’s efforts have received substantial recognition which includes being awarded the 2004 New York State Environmental Excellence Award and the National Pollution Prevention Roundtable's 2006 MVP2 Award.
A sample of national and international publications and presentations by P2I researchers follows:
- Green, N., “A Major Impact - Collaboration Between Business, Industry, and Academia,” Process Cleaning, 27-29, July/August, 2007.
- Green, N., “Best practices - Implementing alternative cleaning technologies,” Process Cleaning, 46-48, July/August, 2006.
- Green, N. and German, R., "Calculating the true cost of cleaning," 2006 National Manufacturing Week, Chicago, IL, June, 2006.
- Seager TP, Theis TL., "A pollution potential approach to environmental optimization," Strategic Environmental Management, John Wiley & Sons: New York NY, 2004.
- Rothenberg, S., Becker, M., "Technical Assistance Programs and The Diffusion of Environmental Technologies in the Printing Industry: The Case of SMEs," Vol. 43, No. 4, December, 2004.
- Green N., "Pollution prevention and the national environmental performance track," Meeting of the NYS Environmental Business Association, Rochester, NY, September, 2003.
- Seager TP, Theis TL., "Exergetic pollution potential: Estimating the revocability of pollution," Exergy, An International Journal, 2:273-282, 2002.
- Becker, M., Geiser, K., Keenan, C., "Evaluating Progress: The Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Program Takes Stock," Environmental Science and Technology, Vol. 31, No. 12, December, 1997.
- Becker, M. and Ashford, N., "Exploiting Opportunities for Pollution Prevention in EPA Enforcement Agreements," Environmental Science and Technology, Vol. 29 No. 5, pp 220A-226A, American Chemical Society, August, 1995.
- Dorfman, M., White, A., Becker, M., and Jackson, T., "Profiting From Pollution Prevention," Clean Production Strategies: Developing Preventive Environmental Management in the Industrial Economy, T. Jackson (ed.) Boca Raton, Fla.: Lewis Publishers, 1993.
- White, A.L., Becker, M., Savage, D.E., "Environmentally Smart Accounting: Using Total Cost Assessment to Advance Pollution Prevention," Pollution Prevention Review, Vol. 3, No. 3, Summer 1993.
