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PUBLICATIONS LIST

MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE

1.    Making Less Garbage: A Planning Guide for Communities
The best way to avoid the problems of dealing with garbage is to
avoid producing it.  Find dozens of ideas that are working now in
businesses, institutions, and government to cut back on waste -
things like reclaimed paint programs and "cash for trash"
incentives.  $30  1993
2.    Burning Garbage in the US: Practice vs. State of the Art
Communities building trash incinerators need to know what to look
for to get the cleanest technology, and communities with existing
plants need to learn how to make them better.  This book looks at
the equipment, planning, and operating practices that lead to the
least pollution and ash and tells how to reduce threats to health
and the environment in US incinerators.  $47  1991
3.    Business Recycling Manual
Help your business start or enlarge a waste reduction program, from
start to
finish, audit to market, employee education to negotiating with
haulers. Worksheets, charts, and sources for information and
equipment.  $85 (+ $5 shipping)  1991
4.    Reducing Office Paper Waste
Outlines money-saving solutions to the mounting office paper waste
problem, focusing on double-sided copying and reduced photocopying.
$15  1991
5.    Garbage Management in Japan:  Leading the Way
Details of Japan's sophisticated solid waste management:  the role
landfills and incinerators play, the environmental regulations
affecting them, and the organization of recycling and household
hazardous waste collection and disposal programs.  $15  1987
6.    Germany, Garbage, and the Green Dot: Challenging the
Throwaway Society German legislation demands that packages be taken
back, reused, or recycled by industry, shifting a large solid waste
burden from municipalities to manufacturers and cutting down the
use of unnecessary packaging. Proposed further laws would require
takeback of automobiles and electronic equipment. This report
analyzes the concept of manufacturer responsibility as it spreads
throughout Europe and Canada and begins to affect US businesses. 
$25  1994

CHEMICAL HAZARDS PREVENTION

7.    Tackling Toxics in Everyday Products:  A Directory of
Organizations Find out where to go for the information you need on
hazards in products around your house, from paint to nail polish.
Information on 250 organizations in the US and abroad working on
problems caused by the use and disposal of consumer and building
products containing toxic chemicals. Cross references by products,
chemicals, health issues, and geographical location make finding
the right groups easy.  $19.95  1992
8.    Environmental Dividends:  Cutting More Chemical Wastes
Documents dramatic new evidence of the environmental and economic
benefits of industrial source reduction of toxic and hazardous
wastes _ preventing the generation of waste in the first place
instead of cleaning it up after it has been created _ through an
in-depth analysis of 181 specific source reduction activities at
the 29 organic chemical manufacturing plants first studied in
inform's 1985 Cutting Chemical Wastes.  $75  1992
9.    Cutting Chemical Wastes: What 29 Organic Chemical Plants Are
Doing to Reduce Hazardous Wastes
The first in-depth demonstration of efforts in a major US industry
to reduce generation of hazardous wastes at source. Case studies of
29 chemical plants show the variety of significant environmental
and economic gains possible in reducing hazardous wastes, but also
the infrequency of such initiatives, due in part to lack of
incentives government might provide.  $47.50  1986 
10.   Preventing Industrial Toxic Hazards: A Guide for Communities
Leads community groups step by step through a process for
encouraging local plants to reduce their use of toxic chemicals and
their creation of toxic waste. By researching the plants and
developing a constructive dialogue with plant managers, citizens
can help businesses become better, cleaner neighbors.  $25  1993
11.   Toxics in Our Air
More toxic chemicals from more industrial plants from more parts of
the country are released into the air than into any other
environmental medium, according to the report, which provides
background information on toxic chemical wastes and the TRI.  $4.50 
1990
12.   Toward a More Informed Public:  Recommendations for Improving
the Toxics Release Inventory Twenty-four ways in which the federal
Toxics Release Inventory might be improved to provide the public
with a more effective tool for tracking industrial waste reduction
accomplishments and progress.  $10  1991
13.   Trading Toxics Across State Lines
A detailed breakdown of the sources and destinations of toxic waste
entering and leaving each state and amounts of wastes going to
various kinds of waste management facilities within each state. 
$7.50  1990
14.   A Clearer View of Toxics: New Jersey Reporting Requirements
as a Model for the United States
Data reported by New Jersey industrial facilities to the federal
Toxics Release Inventory and to that state's Department of
Environmental Protection and Energy reveals that the brroader
reporting required in New Jersey provides a picture of toxic
chemicals in the state that makes posssible far more effective
assessment of toxic reisks to workers, community, and the
environment, and better emergency preparedness.  $15  1994
15.   Toxic Clusters:  Patterns of Pollution in the Midwest
This intensive regional analysis of Toxics Release Inventory data
reveals that mid-western industries generate more than one-fifth of
all the toxic waste in the US _ 1,364,544,291 pounds in 1988 alone
_ and identifies the counties and industries that create the most
waste.  $15  1991

AIR QUALITY 

16.   Paving the Way to Natural Gas Vehicles
Natural gas is clean fuel, available now. Here are examples of
current programs promoting increased use of natural gas vehicles_in
research and development, government incentives, fleet
demonstrations, infrastructure, and commercialization, with costs,
results, and goals.  $25  1993 
Land and Water Conservation
17.   Winning with Water:  Soil-Moisture Monitoring for Efficient
Irrigation Documents results of inform's research on 32 commercial
fields in California over a three-year period, showing how farmers
can detect and correct uneven and inefficient irrigation by using
an old tool - small gypsum blocks - in a new, systematic way to
monitor soil moisture. $24.95  1988

FORTHCOMING REPORTS

18.   Case Reopened: Reassessing Refillable Bottles
Analyzes effects of refillable and single-use containers in
generating solid waste, using energy, and polluting air and water.
Looks at pluses and minuses of different distribution systems here
and abroad. 1994
19.   Stirring Up Innovation: Environmental Improvement in Paints
and Adhesives A look at some industry efforts to eliminate or
reduce toxics use in paints and adhesives and the impediments and
motivations behind those efforts. 1994
20.   Prospects for Solar-Generated Hydrogen as a Vehicle Fuel
Hydrogen could provide the world with a virtually inexhaustible,
environmentally benign energy resource, but many economic and
technological problems remain to be solved. This report explores
the potential of solar hydrogen to replace fossil fuel entirely in
transportation.  1995

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