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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>63046</law_id><section_number>10.1-1425.10</section_number><catch_line>Definitions</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>10.1-1197.1</reference><reference>62.1-44.19:8</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="10.1">Conservation</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="II">Activities Administered by Other Entities</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="14">Virginia Waste Management Act</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="3.3">Pollution Prevention Program</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>As used in this article, unless the context requires a different meaning:
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Pollution prevention</span>&#x201D; means eliminating or reducing the use, generation or release at the source of environmental <span class="dictionary">waste</span>. Methods of <span class="dictionary">pollution prevention</span> include, but are not limited to, equipment or technology modifications; process or procedure modifications; reformulation or redesign of products; substitution of raw <span class="dictionary">materials</span>; improvements in housekeeping, maintenance, training, or inventory control; and closed-loop recycling, onsite process-related recycling, reuse or extended use of any <span class="dictionary">material</span> utilizing equipment or methods which are an integral part of a production process. The term shall not include any practice which alters the physical, chemical, or biological characteristics or the volume of an environmental <span class="dictionary">waste</span> through a process or activity which itself is not integral to and necessary for the production of a product or the providing of a service, and shall not include <span class="dictionary">treatment</span>, increased pollution control, off-site or nonprocess-related recycling, or incineration.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Toxic or hazardous substance</span>&#x201D; means (i) all of the chemicals identified on the Toxic Chemical List established pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA0;313 of the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act, 42 U.S.C. &#xA7;&#xA0;11001 et seq. (P.L. 99-499), and (ii) all of the chemicals listed pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA7;&#xA0;101(14) and 102 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, 42 U.S.C. &#xA7;&#xA0;9601 et seq. (P.L. 92-500).</p></section></text><history>1993, c. 459; 1994, c. 169.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
