Welcome to the Department of Toxic Substances Control

Office of Pollution Prevention and Green Technology

 

 

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Mission and Objectives

The mission of DTSC's Pollution Prevention program is to promote pollution prevention by providing state leadership, guidance, and assistance to industry, local government, and other environmental agencies. Read more about our objectives.

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Green Technology / Green Remediation

The Green Technology branch is responsible for evaluating innovative technologies to treat, recycle, clean up, and eliminate or reduce hazardous waste.

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Toxics in Products

The mission of the Toxics in Products branch is to eliminate or reduce toxic chemicals in products and ensure that products are appropriately managed at the end of their useful life. Check out the new Lighting page detailing the restrictions on hazardous materials in general purpose lights.

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Pollution Prevention

The Pollution Prevention branch provides guidance for industries and local Green Business programs and promotes hazardous waste reduction through voluntary techniques, including source-reduction planning (SB 14) and sector-specific planning (SB 1916).

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Events

Check our calendar of upcoming meetings and programs or learn about P2 Week

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Publications and Forms

See our publications list (which includes links to online forms when available) as well as our online Pollution Prevention publications and Evaluating Technology publications, and sign up for DTSC Listservs, including P2 E-News.

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Staff Contacts

Contact staff members with questions or comments. Other resources and links are also available.












 
 
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