Table of Contents

Executive summary
Introduction
  Why pollution prevention??
  Measuring performance and progress: the driving
  forces
Measurement parameters
  Category 1. Program-oriented measurements
  Category 2. Activity-based measurements
  Category 3. Mass-based measurements
  Category 4. Concentration-based measurements
  Category 5. Normalized efficiency measures
Conclusions
List of tables
Table 1. Examples of program-oriented measurements
Table 2. Examples of activity-based measurements
Table 3. Waste generation estimates for the total
          U.S. refining industry
Table 4. Refinery releases and transfers of top 25
          TRI chemicals by medium: 1990
Table 5. Examples of mass-based measurements
Table 6. Efficiency measures normalized by activity
Table 7. Examples of efficiency measures normalized
          by production
Table 8. Examples of measurements normalized by waste
          generation
Figures
Figure 1. Management of API separator sludge

Abstract

This report presents methods that can be used to measure progress toward pollution prevention. It investigates a series of measurement parameters presented in five categories: program-based; activity based; mass-based; normalized efficiency and concentration-based. Within each category of measures, the benefits and limitations are discussed and illustrated with industry examples.

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Published
Document Type	Standard
Status	Current
Publisher	American Petroleum Institute
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