The team supports efforts that promote a more sustainable environment and implements pollution prevention activities, as appropriate for LM.
February 29, 2024
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Mission
The team supports efforts that promote a more sustainable environment and implements pollution prevention activities, as deemed appropriate for LM operations.
The team advocates environmentally sound waste minimization and pollution prevention practices.
Scope
- Inventory recycling, municipal solid waste, and construction and demolition debris waste streams.
- Prevent or reduce pollution and waste at their source.
- Reuse items.
- Recycle.
- Use recycled-content products.
- Use less toxic or nontoxic products.
- Track and report on various contributors to Scope 1 greenhouse gas(GHG) from sources directly owned or controlled by a federal agency (water treatment and fugitive emissions) and Scope 3 GHG from sources that are not owned or directly controlled by a federal agency but are related to agency activities (business air travel, employee commuting, municipal solid waste, and construction and demolition debris).
Key Expectations
- Monitor and track progress on metrics.
- Maintain/implement a plan that integrates waste minimization and pollution prevention into LM activities.
- Provide employee awareness and training.
- Perform Pollution Prevention Opportunity Assessments (when appropriate).
- Maintain an information network.
- Propose and implement initiatives.
