New York State Pollution Prevention Institute

Industry-Specific Research

Select industries have been chosen for focused research, to provide helpful resources to industry leaders.

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Pollution Prevention Achievement Program

This recognition program acknowledges businesses who exemplify the values and ongoing commitment needed to advance sustainability.

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Food System Clearinghouse

This resource is here to help you successfully utilize food waste as a resource by preventing and diverting your food waste.

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The New York State Pollution Prevention Institute (NYSP2I) is a research center headquartered on the Rochester Institute of Technology campus that is dedicated to helping New York State residents and businesses find implementable and cost-effective sustainability solutions.

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Business

Direct Assistance

Reduce your waste and toxics, and improve your resource recovery, green chemistry and utilization of resources

Green Technology Accelerator Center

Accelerate the commercilization of your green products or processes

Sustainable Supply Chain

Identify the gaps in your sustainable business practices

Food System Clearinghouse

This resource is here to help you successfully utilize food waste as a resource by preventing and diverting your food waste.

Best Practices

Learn how NYSP2I has helped residents and businesses find implementable and cost-effective sustainability solutions.

Community

Community Grants

Apply for funding to support local sustainability projects

K-12 Program

Implement sustainability programs for K-12 classrooms

Workshops & Training

Provide sustainability training for your workplace, community or home

The New York State Pollution Prevention Institute (NYSP2I) was able to provide important information related to costs, increased efficiencies, elimination of a hazardous substance, and reduction in energy use….and also provided a very useful in depth analysis and was extremely easy to work with.

Gene Pierce, Glenora Wine Cellars
The collaboration with NYSP2I was very successful and the results of our combined study are being shared within NY State and at a national level within the food industry.

Jason Wadsworth, Sustainability Manager, Wegmans Food Markets, Inc.
NYSP2I provided an independent 3rd party assessment of our new lighting technology and confirmed an energy savings of >79% for our latest generation lighting product as compared to the existing metal halide exterior lighting. As we introduce this new technology to the market, we anticipate the addition of 25 new jobs supporting new product design and manufacturing.

James Hoffman, LED Display Technology, Inc.
The Pollution Prevention Institute has proved a key partner in helping us navigate confusing environmental requirements!

Dana Wiser, Design Manager, Community Playthings
The New York State Pollution Prevention Institute (NYSP2I) helped us to better understand what options exist to potentially reduce, if not eliminate, halogenated solvent use in our facility. We hope to further sustainability efforts through continued evaluation and implementation of the findings provided by NYSP2I.

Warren Hoy, Plant Manager, DuPont Yerke
Your combined efforts to develop our employee training course and then to teach the first round of classes was very helpful to us. I’m proud to inform you that we finished our audit last week and learned that we are the 4th company ever to have earned the Platinum rating.

Bob Bechtold, President, Harbec Plastics
I recommend that all wineries, in fact all NY companies, consider having NYSP2I take a look at their operations to see how they can save money and reduce environmental impacts.

Larry Perrine, Winemaker Channing Daughters Winery
The NYSP2I Project team took the time to fully understand our problem and previous efforts, then applied excellent resources (equipment and people) to identify solutions. The NYSP2I Project Team stayed focused on finding useable results and were always a pleasure to work with.

Dave Vance, Plant Manager, FMC Corporation - Tonawanda Plant
The engineers at the New York State Pollution Prevention Institute (NYSP2I) have helped us learn more about various technologies that can be used to clean and reuse water. NYSP2I provided very useful in depth analyses and has been great to work with.

Brian T. Perry, Perry’s Ice Cream
The collaboration with NYSP2I was very successful; the entire process was well orchestrated by all parties involved. The results of the study exceeded our expectation and provided data suitable for publication and promotion. We appreciate the support from NYSP2I.

Philip Block, PhD, Technology Director, FMC Global Peroxygens
RIT and NYSP2I resources have linked AAC with food transporters, providing invaluable input about the value proposition, key requirements, and market opportunities for our new product and supporting new product growth and employment in NY State.

Erin Toner, American Aerogel Corporation
The third-party (testing) by NYSP2I through the GTAC program provided a valuable tool used in technical and commercial discussions with some of the largest corporations and engineering firms in the world.

Terry Wright, Founder, ClearCove Systems Inc.

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