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The Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Institute (TURI) is a state agency of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It was established in 1989 when the Toxics Use Reduction Act was passed by the legislature. TURI is located at the University of Massachusetts Lowell in Lowell, MA. TURI provides the required training for employees and consultants to become certified by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental protection as Toxics Use Reduction Planners. TURI's laboratory also provides free surface cleaning research and consulting to Massachusetts businesses who are currently using toxic cleaning chemicals in their business.[1]
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Mission
The Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Institute conducts research in innovative technology and provides education and training programs, as well as technical support, to businesses, communities and government agencies.[2]
State funds terminated
Despite costing less than $1.5 million, Massachusetts State Senator Steven C. Panagiotakos defended his vote in the Legislature in a July 1, 2009 Boston Globe article. The Senator argued it was not to end the lab, suggesting UMass-Lowell would fund it eventually. Yet the University denied the claim. And in a July 5, 2009 Letter to the Editor, one reader pointed to the Senator as previously cutting the same University's budget amid a time of economic prosperity for the state, and that the lab "profits more than it costs." This is due to it netting a net profit to the State's revenue, through fines and fees from regulated businesses, than it costs the state to operate the lab.
See also
Notes
- ^ http://www.turi.org/content/content/view/full/2231/
- ^ http://www.turi.org/content/content/view/full/1857/
External links
- Boston Globe: Agency focused on cutting toxics loses funding
- Boston Globe: Letters to the Editor, July 5, 2009
- Toxics Use Reduction Institute website
- TURI laboratory's CleanerSolutions database
- P2Gems pollution prevention directory
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- Waste legislation in the United States
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