1996 Electronics Industry Environmental Roadmap - Civil and ...

Appendix E
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1 ITEM: National Industrial Competitiveness through Energy, Environment, and
Economics (NICE3)
2 SOURCE: U.S. EPA and U.S. DOE, Washington, DC
3 CONTENT: This jointly funded EPA-DOE program provides grants to individual
state/industry partnerships directed at improving industry energy efficiency, reducing energy
costs, and promoting clean production.
4 ACCESSIBILITY: Data are publicly available.
5 COST: Data are publicly available free of cost.
6 UPDATE: On-going.
7 PERTINENCE: The value of this program to the MCC Environmental Roadmap is associated
with the documented “success stories” that are applicable to the U.S. electronics industry. As
with other programs geared to demonstrating innovative approaches to achieving source
reduction and pollution prevention, the ultimate value of this program may be in the future, as
more electronic industry companies participate.
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1 ITEM: P2/Finance Commuter Program
2 SOURCE: Tellus Institute, Philadelphia, PA
3 CONTENT: P2/Finance is an innovative approach to analyzing costs associated with pollution
prevention. The software consists of a series of Microsoft Excel spreadsheets for determining individual
company costs associated with pollution prevention activities.
4 ACCESSIBILITY: Computer program available from Tellus Institute.
5 COST: Program casts less than $100.
6 UPDATE: Unknown.
7 PERTINENCE: This computer program appears to include all reasonable variables associated
with the costs of pollution prevention for a company. It is possible that multi-company users
could combine similar data for industry projections. Although the program itself is fairly
rudimentary, it could be considerably enhanced for use in the U.S. electronics industry. The
approach is very interesting and deserves in-depth evaluation.
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1 ITEM: Manufacturing Consumption of Energy
2 SOURCE: U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, DC
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