According to their website, “The Pacific Northwest Pollution Prevention Resource Center (PPRC) is a nonprofit organization that is the Northwest’s leading source of high quality, unbiased pollution prevention (P2) information. PPRC works collaboratively with business, government, non-government organizations, and other sectors to promote environmental protection through pollution prevention. PPRC believes that environmental and economic vitality go hand in hand, and that both are necessary to protect the high quality of life enjoyed in our region.”

The PPRC’s central contributions are:

•Making high quality information available to decision-makers in business and other sectors to help them integrate pollution prevention into their operations

•Identifying P2 obstacles and opportunities through collaborative networking with business, government, and other constituencies

•Catalyzing projects that address project needs, and bringing people and resources together to implement pollution prevention

•Promoting pollution prevention as an essential element of sustainable development strategies

Organization Type: Not-For-Profit Corporations