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Cleanups: What You Can Do

How Communities and Concerned Citizens Can
Get Involved
Hazardous waste cleanups always benefit when communities and individuals get
involved. These links provide more information on what you can do to help the
cleanup effort.

Community Engagement improves dialogue between EPA and local

communities and stakeholders, including ways individuals can participate
in cleanup decisions.
Community Engagement and the Underground Storage Tanks
Program
Community Involvement at Engagement at Federal Facilities
Community Involvement During Emergency Responses
Superfund Community Involvement
Encouraging Community Engagement in Superfund
Enforcement
Brownfields Technical Assistance and Research
Sustainable Materials Management - Learn about how to reduce food
waste, donating and recycling electronic products, guidelines for
federal agencies, and generally about reducing, reusing and recycling
waste that would otherwise go into landfills
The Importance of Effective Community Engagement For
Sustainable Infrastructure (blog post)
Open Government Community Involvement Initiative
Public Participation in the Hazardous Waste Permitting and Corrective
Action Processes
Environmental Justice offers strategies and tools to help combat the
disproportionate amount of adverse health and environmental effects of
pollution in minority and/or low-income communities.
What You Can Do to Clean the Air
Ways to Protect the Air in Your Home
Creating Healthy Indoor Air Quality in Schools
What You Can Do to Reduce Emissions from Vehicles
Clean Air Act Plain English Guide (with a section on Ways to
Reduce Air Pollution)
What You Can Do to Clean the Water
How You Can Help Keep Urban Waters Clean
What You Can Do about Water Quality and Quantity - this Water
page includes a section on What You Can Do.
EPA for Citizen Action includes resources to help you understand
environmental issues and potential human health risks, along with ways that
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