Biological Treatment Technologies explores aerobic, anaerobic and facultative treatments as well as bioremediation (land farming, air sparging, bio-cell, bio-reactor and phytoremediation) with the aid of animation and electron microscope imagery. 

Chemical Treatment Technologies reviews chemical principles, and presents examples of neutralization, precipitation, oxidation and reduction treatments. Animation depicts chemical processes at atomic and molecular levels. 

Introduction to Waste Stream Management shows how to develop block flow diagrams and use mass balance to analyze and manage gas, liquid and solid waste streams using methods selected from the EPA treatment technologies. 

Petroleum Production and Transportation traces the route of crude oil from wells to tank farms, including secondary recovery techniques, and concludes with a dramatic full-scale supertanker oil spill response drill. 

Petroleum Refining and Waste Minimization depicts the refinery’s maze of pipes and operations with the aid of animation, and follows a team of auditors through a refinery as engineers seek to improve their waste management strategies. 

Physical Treatment Technologies surveys dual bed and belt filters, baghouses, centrifuges, distillation, reverse osmosis, microfiltration, flocculation, evaporation and settling ponds, air stripping, electrostatic precipitation, and adsorption. 

Pollution Prevention: Bridging Troubled Waters focuses on chlorine-free pulp bleaching, and analyzes consumer acceptance and corporate ideology and their relationship to pollution prevention strategies. A small business study features EPA’s screen printing project. 

Pollution Prevention: Clearing the Air looks into the politics and economics of the Clean Air Act of 1990 and reformulated gasoline, as well as EPA’s small business pollution prevention program for promoting an alternative CO2 dry cleaning method. 

The Chemical Industries explains the production of petrochemical plastics, sulfuric acid and borate mining and processing, and highlights bulk handling and processing of chemicals as well as related safety and environmental monitoring activities. 

The Food and Agriculture Industries surveys agricultural water issues, sugar cane and citrus processing in the Everglades, and features dairy farms and cheese making. Concludes with a case study of the reduction of packaging waste at McDonalds. 

The Metal Plating and Finishing Industries demonstrates surface preparation using sand blasting, vapor degreasing and various aqueous methods prior to finishing different metals by barrel, automated rack, and anodizing. Includes use of nonmetallic substrates. 

The Paint and Surface Coating Industries features auto painting, powder coating and the making of non- and low-VOC paints; and paint stripping using non-solvent methods including plastic media, dry ice and lasers. Lead-based paint health issues also are discussed. 

The Papermaking Industry addresses air, water and solid waste stream issues in a modern papermaking mill, along with innovative recycling efforts. Animation depicts the pulping process and the kraft liquor recovery cycle.  

The Semiconductor and Electronics Industry focuses on integrated circuit design, fabrication, and related ozone issues involving solvent handling, replacement or substitution, and shows innovative disassembly and recycling of obsolete computer components. 

Thermal Treatment Technologies demonstrates operation of reciprocating grate, multiple hearth, rotary kiln and plasma arc units, as well as pryrolysis and wet air oxidation (Zimpro). Dioxins and related health concerns are examined.