Paul Bishop is the Herman Schneider Professor of Environmental Engineering at the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Bishop received a B.S. in civil engineering from Northeastern University and an M.S. and Ph.D. in environmental engineering from Purdue University. He spent 16 years in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of New Hampshire, and for the past 12 years has been in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Bishop's specialties are pollution prevention, biological waste treatment, and hazardous waste management. He is the author or co-author two books and more than 200 technical papers.

Presentation Topic : Pollution Prevention: A Win-Win Solution

By: Paul Bishop, Ph.D., P.E., DEE

It has been twelve years since the Pollution Prevention Act was passed by Congress. Since then, much progress has been made in achieving the goals of the Act. Today, many companies espouse the principles of pollution prevention and routinely use them as a just another requirement of doing business. They have found that, as the 3M Corporation said, "Pollution Prevention Pays." However, many other companies are still resisting putting into place good pollution prevention practices. This presentation will discuss where we have come from, where we are now, and what still can be done to minimize waste generation by industry. Case studies will be used to describe the benefits, and also the costs, of instituting effective pollution prevention.

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