The ministry has held a series of technical training sessions to help facilities meet the requirements of the Toxics Reduction Act. Here are the materials used for those sessions.
Accounting and reporting
- View the November 2011 slide presentation on toxic substance accounting and reporting (PDF).
- Practice your accounting and reporting skills with the technical training exercises (PDF) and answer book (PDF) from the November 2011 training sessions on toxic substance accounting and reporting.
- Exercises include:
- process flow diagram
- tracking and quantification
- input-output balance
- facility-wide results
- Exercises include:
Planning
- Review the slide presentation on toxic substance reduction planning from the September/October 2012 technical training sessions (PDF).
- Practice your toxic substance reduction planning skills with the three sample exercises based on a fictional manufacturing facility:
- Exercise one – direct and indirect costs (PDF - Page 29)
- Exercise two – identification of options (PDF - Page 52)
- Exercise three – feasibility analyses and implementation (PDF - Page 74)
- Compare your work to the example answers found in the answer book (PDF).
- Review the Single Window guidance document on how to submit your toxic substance reduction plan summary.