EPA READIES FINAL PLAN FOR WASTE MANAGEMENT LIFECYCLE APPROACH

摘要

EPA is preparing to release in May the final version of its long-pending plan to comprehensively overhaul waste management and will recommend a number of key steps including focusing existing agency programs on a new "lifecycle" approach that will address each step in the product development process.rnAt a March 25 National Advisory Council on Environmental Policy & Technology (NACEPT) briefing, Derry Allen of the agency's Office of Policy, Economics & Innovation previewed the final plan that he said will mark the first steps in a "generation-long shift" in the management of materials. The plan includes a potential advisory role for NACEPT on issues including developing lifecycle strategies for materials management.rnThe report will encompass final recommendations outlined by a draft document that EPA released last April outlining plans for implementing a 2002 agency document, Beyond RCRA: Prospects for Waste and Materials Management In The Year 2020. Provisions in the 2002 document sought to clean up all RCRA sites and develop by 2020 a plan to reduce risks from waste products during their entire lifecycle.