The P2 Multimedia (meaning environmental media) Award celebrates work that most effectively reduces harmful impacts to all environmental media: to land, air, and water, and reduces impacts to workers and consumers.  Much of the history of environmental management has involved "cross-media" activity, shifting wastes from one medium to another, as when a filter captures air pollutants, but then must be disposed of as hazardous waste.  Pollution prevention that has the most beneficial impact is that which extends through the entire life cycle of a product or practice and does not involve media-shifting.  The award is for projects and programs that result in the reduction of harm to ecosystems and people because they avoid pollution during the process being undertaken, and reduce harm in shipping and storing of hazardous substances, as well as the injuries to health and the environment that can occur during product manufacturing and use, and post-use management.

Nominations for this award will be judged on the preventive value of the pollution reduction, including;
• Extent of the pollution reduction across environmental media
• Reduction of exposure risk to environmental and human receptors
• Demonstration of new techniques, practices, opportunities
• Transferability of the demonstration
• Effectiveness of communication of the P2 example

Please answer the following questions completely. Applications should be no longer than one page. You can nominate your own project or program that had multimedia benefits, work by your organization, or you can nominate work by someone else or another organization. A separate nomination form should be submitted for each project or program. All nominations will be kept confidential by the review panel.

Thank you for your interest in the NPPR MVP2 Awards!