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Manuals

These manuals can be ordered from the IWRC:

• Dry Cleaner Compliance Manual
• Vehicle Maintenance Pollution Prevention Manual
• Pollution Prevention Manual for Lithographic Printers
• Cutting Fluid Management for Small Machining Operations
• Auto Body Surface Coating: A Practical Guide to Reducing Air Emissions
• Iowa Pollution Prevention Initiative Manuals
• The Handbook of Environmental Regulations for Agribusiness
• The Environmental Audit Training Manual
• Golf Course Pollution Prevention Guide

Most items are also downloadable as pdf files.

These items are downloadable as .pdf files:

• Teachers' Resources: Clean Scene, Fine Print, and Rev It Up boardgames.

For the current version of Acrobat Reader:

Adding A Filter To Your Parts Washer
This handbook describes how to install a filter onto any solvent-based parts washer. An automotive oil filter and filter relocation kit is used to keep the cost low and simplify installation.

• Includes step-by-step instructions.
• Uses parts available at most retail hardware and automobile parts stores.
• Far less expensive than many commercial kits.
• Detailed pictures illustrate every step.
• Extend the life of your solvent without purchasing new equipment.
• Easily modify a parts washer or several in a few hours.

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Golf Course Pollution Prevention Guide
This manual will help golf course maintenance staff identify areas where pollution prevention techniques can be applied in a practical manner. Each section presents a waste type common to golf courses accompanied by pollution prevention recommendations.

Although the focus of this manual is on pollution prevention, regulatory information is given as necessary where it impacts pollution prevention practices and to illustrate how pollution prevention can help reduce regulatory requirements.

Order a printed version of Golf Course Pollution Prevention Guide for $3

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Dry Cleaner Compliance Manual
The Dry Cleaner Compliance Manual helps Iowa dry cleaning facilities using perchloroethylene (perc), petroleum solvents or alternative products understand and comply with state and federal environmental regulations. The manual provides a desktop reference of current requirements and recommendations for Iowa dry cleaners on air regulations, hazardous waste management and disposal, wastewater discharge, solid waste management and disposal and general operating practices. It also outlines the requirements for dry-to-dry and transfer dry cleaning machine units. A 24-month Compliance Calendar for perc facilities is also available to make monthly record keeping easily accessible.

Order the printed version of Dry Cleaner Compliace Manual while supplies last.
(includes Compliance Calendar)

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Vehicle Maintenance Pollution Prevention Manual
An innovative manual is available for the vehicle maintenance industry. Techniques to reduce wastes and save money are made easy with this helpful guide.
The Vehicle Maintenance Pollution Prevention manual couples these techniques with applicable regulatory information. The manual addresses pollution prevention methods that will help with regulatory compliance and reduce regulatory requirements.
Pollution prevention strategies are presented for dealing with specific waste categories. Topics include parts washing, used oil and oily wastes, used antifreeze, wastewater and sludge, refrigerants, painting, batteries, disposable aerosol cans, waste fuels and overall waste reduction.
The manual offers practical strategies that are easy to implement. Lists of vendors, recyclers, and service providers are included.

Order the printed version of Vehicle Maintenance P2 Manual for $12

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Pollution Prevention Manual for Lithographic Printers
A comprehensive pollution prevention manual is available for lithographic printers.
The IWRC prepared the Pollution Prevention for Lithographic Printers manual as the first product of an ongoing process of examining pollution prevention strategies within the printing industry.
The manual focuses on lithographic printing, the largest area in the graphic arts industry. It covers prepress operations, makeready, inks, dampening systems, emerging technologies, in-plant recycling programs and includes in-house studies in each of these areas to prove actual effectiveness.
Compliance with ever-changing environmental regulations that potentially affect printers can be expensive. Effective pollution prevention practices and technologies can help printers limit or avoid some of the expenses.
The relationship between pollution prevention and environmental regulations is covered in the manual, including air emissions, wastewater and hazardous waste requirements.
The potential benefits of pollution prevention include bottom line savings, less time spent assuring compliance, decreased likelihood of site clean-up and increased future property values, on-time delivery and quality work, decreased workers compensation claims and sick time, and increased worker productivity. The manual is 68 pages long.

Order the printed version of P2 for Lithographic Printers Manual for $12

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Cutting Fluid Management for Small Machining Operations-3rd Edition
The Cutting Fluid Management for Small Machining Operations reviews cutting fluid characteristics and functions in small facilities, including oil-based and chemical cutting fluids. It includes an overview of fluid properties such as corrosion protection, stability/rancidity control, transparency and viscosity, and health and safety considerations.

This manual details fluid management for pollution prevention incorporating fluid monitoring and maintenance measures such as fluid preparation, concentration, pH and microbial contamination. The manual also addresses recycling issues and the environmental regulations surrounding waste disposal.

Order the printed version of Cutting Fluid Management for $10

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Auto Body Surface Coating: A Practical Guide to Reducing Air Emissions
Auto Body Surface Coating: A Practical Guide to Reducing Air Emissions provides an overview of Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) reduction in auto body shops. This practical pollution prevention guide was developed to help automotive refinishers:

• Reduce the amount of VOCs and HAPs emitted during painting operations,
• Avoid the need for expensive emission control devices,
• Decrease the amount of paint-related wastes generated,
• Maintain a high quality finish.

The manual gives an overview of the auto refinishing process and recommends approaches to practical air emission reduction. It includes a comprehensive review of the spray equipment currently used for auto refinishing operations, spray equipment cleaning processes, surface prep cleaners, undercoats, topcoats and a look at what to expect in the future.

Order the printed version of Autobody Surface Coating for $5

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Iowa Pollution Prevention Initiative Manuals
The Iowa Pollution Prevention Initiative created three separate manuals that cover pollution prevention issues for three separate industries: printing, metal manufacturing and vehicle maintenance.
Each manual follows roughly the same structure. First, they cover the basics of pollution prevention and then describe the wastes associated with processes specific to the industry. The last section is the financing options available for the different industries.
Each manual thoroughly covers pollution prevention and waste reduction techniques the different shops could implement.
These manuals are $12 each.

Order a printed version of an Iowa Pollution Prevention Initiative Manual for $12

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The Handbook of Environmental Regulations for Agribusiness

The Handbook of Environmental Regulations for Agribusiness contains basic environmental regulation information on wastewater, storm water, air emissions, hazardous and solid waste, and emergency planning and community right to know rules. It provides a description of which regulations apply to each of the following activities: Vehicle Maintenance, Grain Handling, Agrichemicals and Bulk Fuels. Also included in the Handbook is a general Overview of Environmental Regulations and a list of Resources available to assist Agribusiness.

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Environmental Audit Manual-CD-ROM

The Iowa Waste Reduction Center developed the Iowa Environmental Audit Training Manual to help small business utilize the Iowa Self Audit Law. On April 16, 1998 Iowa passed a law on environmental self-assessment and audit privilege, known as the Environmental Audit Privilege and Immunity Act and on December 8, 1998 Iowa promulgated a rule on environmental self-audits. This rule provides that under certain conditions, facilities may conduct voluntary evaluations of their operations to determine compliance or noncompliance with environmental regulations and be afforded some protection that the information derived cannot be used against them.

The manual covers the terms, procedures and limitations of the Iowa Self-Audit Law. The manual then describes how to conduct an audit from audit preparation through the closing meeting. The manual provides a description of the major regulatory areas such as the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, air emissions regulations, used oil, and others. This manual is not intended to be an environmental regulatory training guide. Finally the appendices provide checklists for each of the major regulatory areas that individuals can utilize in facility audits.

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Pollution Prevention Curriculum for Vehicle Maintenance
The purpose of this curriculum is to assist automotive technology programs in training vehicle maintenance technicians at the high school, community college and technical school level.

The PCVM is divided into thirteen separate modules designed to augment the existing vehicle maintenance curriculum. This unique design allows each instructor the flexibility to adapt the desired information into their existing course work. There are four parts to the curriculum: teacher edition, student edition (these links are downloadable with Adobe Reader), test packet and transparency packet (MS Power Point slides).

The primary focus of the PPCVM is pollution prevention techniques for all possible waste streams in the vehicle maintenance industry. Each module specifies when tests should be given, when each transparency should be utilized and suggested activities. A copy may be obtained by contacting Sue Schauls at the Iowa Waste Reduction Center.

The material was also converted to WebCT, an internet-based training forum that is used by community colleges.

Business Behind The Scenes-Teacher Resources

The Clean Scene-Rev it Up-Fine Print

Games about the dry cleaning, automotive service, and printing industries

Business, math and environmental science 7-12th grade teachers can impact student achievement by using The Clean Scene, Rev it Up, or Fine Print in their classrooms. These games are a real-life simulation in which students make business decisions. Then they play board games where they reap benefits and suffer consequences of their decisions. The lesson introduces students to small business decision-making, entrepreneurship, pollution prevention, economics and finance.
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