Pollution prevention
URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96004918
- info:lc/authorities/sh96004918
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh96004918#concept
Instance Of
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Variants
- Pollution--Control
- Pollution--Prevention and control
- Prevention of pollution
Broader Terms
Narrower Terms
- Best management practices (Pollution prevention)
- Carbon dioxide mitigation
- Dust control
- Gasoline vapor control
- Greenhouse gas mitigation
- Hydrogen mitigation
- Oil spills--Prevention
- Ozone-depleting substance mitigation
- Pesticides--Risk mitigation
- Radon mitigation
- Sulfur dioxide mitigation
- Waste minimization
Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Narrower Concepts from Other Schemes
Pollution prevention--Citizen participation 
- Pollution prevention--Costs
- Pollution prevention--Economic aspects
- Pollution prevention--Government policy
- Pollution prevention--Government policy--U.S. states
- Pollution prevention--Information services
- Pollution prevention--Planning
- Pollution prevention--Research
- Pollution prevention--Research grants
- Pollution prevention--Study and teaching
- Pollution prevention--Technological innovations
- Pollution prevention--U.S. states
- Pollution prevention--U.S. states--Finance
Sources
- found: Work cat.: 96-8438: Allen, D.T. Pollution prevention for chemical processes, 1996.
- found: Guide to environmental issues, 1994:p. 63 (Pollution prevention: Actively identifying equipment, processes, and activities which generate excessive waste or use toxic chemicals and then making substitutions, alterations, or product improvements. Conserving energy and minimizing wastes are pollution prevention concepts used in manufacturing, sustainable agriculture, recycling, and clean air/clean water technologies.)
- found: Lee env. eng. dict.(Pollution prevention: A preventive action or a measure taken to minimize waste generation or waste toxicity, if waste generation is inevitable. In a broad sense, it incorporates clean technology, quantity reduction, recycling, reduction, resource conservation, resource recovery, source reduction, toxicity reduction, waste minimization, etc.)
Change Notes
- 1996-04-30: new
- 2017-11-03: revised
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