Recycling and Pollution Prevention

Environmental Compliance Section is responsible for ensuring JBER reduces the pollution of any type into the environment. This is done through three basic mechanisms reduce, reuse and recycle as explained below.

Reduce is a process that reduces the amount of material used or waste created in a process. Green procurement decreases the amount harmful material used by substituting a material that is more environmentally friendly. Process improvement may decrease the amount of harmful material used and harmful waste made. Examples include using earth friendly cleaners, auto soap concentration dispenser and using a soak time in combination with and high temperature high pressure low volume rinse.

Reuse is using a waste product from one process as a useful product in another process or using a material multiple times. Examples include solvent filtering for solvent reuse or using concrete rubble for riprap or erosion control. Reuse resources on JBER include the following;