Pollution affects everyone in Nova Scotia by contaminating our air, land and water. It can affect our health and the health of our ecosystems.

Pollution prevention is:

...the use of processes, practices, materials, products or energy that avoid or minimize the creation of pollutants and wastes, at the source
(CCME, May, 1996)

Pollution Prevention includes:

• water conservation and efficiency,
• efficient use of resources and waste reduction,
• energy conservation and efficiency, and
• hazardous and toxic chemical reduction.

Pollution Prevention Tips

• P2 at Home, at Work and in Business (PDF: 107k)