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MnTAP Publications

Businesses need information about ways to improve efficiency, as well as minimize and manage the waste they generate. MnTAP develops publications to help your business.

MnTAP Checklist
MnTAP's publications checklist offers over 100 technical resources, including fact sheets, vendor reference lists and case studies.

Source Newsletter
MnTAP publishes a free newsletter, Source. Articles contain information that helps you take action on your waste issues. They also recognize the success of companies who have undertaken waste reducing activities.

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Sign-up for a free subscription of the MnTAP newsletter. You can receive the newsletter via e-mail. Minnesota businesses and organizations can choose to receive a hardcopy in the mail, ideal for routing to colleagues.

Latest Issue
2007 issue 1 (pharmaceutical waste, health care award winners, unwanted medications at home, Lou-Rich cuts water, non-contact cooling water, interns, vacuum bagging and infusion, lean and green seminar)

Past Issues
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2006 issue 3 (Rock-Tenn steam line insulation, steam efficiency software, steam trap assessments, steam trap monitoring at Metropolitan Airports Commission, proposed NESHAP for EtO sterilization, tracking defects, low quality steel)

2006 issue 2 (lab procedures, lab prevention checklist, compressed air energy savings, Sunny Fresh Foods, Clean Water Legacy Act)

2006 issue 1 (boiler efficiency, boiler NESHAP, prevent spills, Streater: liquid to powder coating, Minnesota Paint and Powder Coating Expo, MPCA hazardous waste fee structure, ultrasonic leak detector, reuse connections)

2005 issue 2 (MnTAP 20 years, 3M, Ridgeview Medical Center sustainable community, compressed air, hazards after disasters, China and clean production, 10 years of reuse)

2005 issue 1 (ESI supply costs, air quality alerts, FRP port placement, RoHS and WEEE, formulate ESI supply costs, air quality alerts, FRP port placement, RoHS and WEEE, formulate rinses into next batch, TrueRide, beneficial reuse)

Winning With Prevention: 2004 issue 2 (Governor's Award, Making Medicine Mercury Free, Industrial Environmental Achievement Award, Crenlo, variable frequency drives, how to prepare award applications, small business loans, capped air emission permits)

Relationships With Suppliers: 2004 issue 1 (totes, free samples become waste, equipment trial runs, environmentally preferable purchasing, vendors may provide trainings, cultivate vendors relationships, Stylmark, changing products)

Other Articles by MnTAP Staff
"Clean Care," Health Facilities Management Magazine, Debra McKinley and Catherine Zimmer, April 2004.

"Time to Go Green! H2E Program Can Provide Environmental and Financial Benefits," Health Facilities Management, Catherine Zimmer, April 2001.

"Pollution Prevention as News," Pollution Prevention Review, Deb McKinley, Summer 1999.

"Controlling Purchasing and Inventory to Reduce Waste," Pollution Prevention Review, Cindy McComas, Spring 1995.

"Legalizing the Feeding of Nonmeat Food Wastes to Livestock," Applied Engineering in Agriculture, John Polanski, January 1995.

MnTAP's Pollution Prevention Time Line
This time line lists past environmental disasters—and the environmental organizations and regulations that were spawned as a result of the desire to prevent these disasters in the future. It also chronicles MnTAP's role in providing pollution prevention assistance to Minnesota businesses.

 

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