National Pollution Week!
Written by kate - who has written 52 posts on Green Thinking Blog.
I mean…Pollution Prevention Week! (that’s better)
As always, we are fashionably late and tongue tied…
This week, September 15-21, has been recognized as National Pollution Prevention week by the EPA!
This year’s theme is “Pollution Prevention - Where Sustainable Practices Begin.” So, who is doing what & what are you doing?
Each EPA Regional office runs their own grant programs and prevention activities to reduce pollutants. To see specifics on your home region, click here. Specifically, Florida’s theme is “Greening Florida’s Future,” and focused on “green cleaning.” Local business provided hazardous material drop-offs, if you participated you received a free microfiber cloth. Other stores provided a green cleaning kit and educational events to stop pollution at the source.
Currently, Florida has three voluntary programs that allow for residents to be conscious of their environment: Clean Marina Program, the Green Lodging Program, and the Florida Pollution Prevention Program more info here & updates on a later post.
If you have more information about things happening in your region we want to know! Write us immediately!
Remember, just because September 21st marks the end of Pollution Prevention Week officially, it is really just the beginning.
September 20th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
Good to now and it is very true, it does not end on the end the 21st - that is in fact really just the beginning. I recently posted some green ideas on my blog - maybe some of those ideas will help folks and would love to hear others that have good ideas as well. Check it out if you want and give me more simple easy to implement ideas they are most welcome. http://www.mephistos.com/2008/09/13/green-ideas/
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:25 am
My son is currenlty working on a school project about pollution and I am learning some both alarming and amazing facts about the types of pollution and how we can prevent them. Great post - I am sure to be back to read some more.