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EPA’s Environmental Solutions Toolkit -A Buyer’s Resource Guide

The U.S. International Trade Administration (ITA) Office of Energy and Environmental Industries invites members of the Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) to participate in the Environmental Solutions Toolkit—a buyer’s resource guide developed with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to promote American environmental technology abroad.


The Toolkit fosters export opportunities by providing international trade liaisons, industry consumers, and government officials with an index of American environmental technology vendors and service providers arrayed against relevant environmental protection initiatives and regulations. ITA is currently expanding the toolkit to address a wider variety of environmental technologies.

Access the pilot version of the toolkit.

As part of this expansion, ITA specifically seeks U.S. firms interested in exporting technologies related to following categories:

Landfill Environmental Standards
  • Liners
  • Leachate Collection Systems
  • Landfill Gas Collection
  • Bioreactors
  • Controlled Injection Systems
  • Landfill Gas Air Monitoring
  • Landfill Groundwater Monitoring
  • Landfill Covers
  • Landfill Control Systems
  • Medical Waste Management

  • Autoclave
  • Autoclave with Compaction
  • Mechanical Disinfection Systems
  • Chemical Disinfection Systems
  • Microwave Disinfection
  • Irradiation Disinfection Systems
  • Universal Waste

  • Mercury Recycling Technology
  • E-Waste Recycling Technology
  • CRT Recycling Technology
  • Lamp Crushing Systems
  • Solid Waste Industry professionals who would like to be added to the Toolkit or have questions may contact: envirotech@trade.gov. Interested companies should submit their name, website address (either general or technology-specific), contact information, and technology category from the list above.

    Contact:
    The Environmental Industries Team
    Office of Energy and Environmental Industries
    U.S. Department of Commerce
    envirotech@trade.gov
    http://export.gov/envirotech

    About SWANA

    The Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) is an organization of more than 10,000 public and private sector professionals committed to advancing from solid waste management to resource management through their shared emphasis on education, advocacy and research. For more than 60 years, SWANA has been the leading association in the solid waste management field. SWANA serves industry professionals through technical conferences, certifications, publications and a large offering of technical training courses.

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