ABSTRACT
Once produced, pollution gets into the environment eventually. Pollution prevention therefore requires not only the redesign of industrial processes, but of products, buildings, landscapes, and the materials and methods used to produce them. As resources become more scarce and the cost of pollution clean-up escalates, the least costly pollution prevention program is the one that is fastest. The most efficient deployment of talent and capital may therefore be publicly coordinated, interdisciplinary eco-design teams to assist industry in the direct and immediate conversion to ecologically sustainable materials, methods and products, using cost neutral performance-based contracting.
