Section 28-0103. Declaration of purpose

It is the purpose of this article to:
    1.  promote  pollution  prevention as a means for preventing the risks
  associated  with  the  use  and  production  of  hazardous   substances,
  including risks to public health and the environment;
    2.  promote  pollution  prevention  as a means for reducing energy and
  resource consumption, and reducing  or  eliminating  the  generation  of
  hazardous substances, pollution and waste;
    3.  promote implementation of affordable and cost effective methods of
  achieving pollution prevention as means of sustaining  and  safeguarding
  the  competitive  advantage of New York businesses, large and small, and
  advancing innovation in the reduction of energy and resource consumption
  and the reduction or elimination of hazardous substances, pollution  and
  waste;
    4. promote voluntary implementation of pollution prevention as a means
  for  meeting  the requirements of state or federal environmental laws or
  regulations; and
    5. promote coordination and cooperation between all federal, state and
  local agencies and private organizations administering programs  related
  to  pollution  prevention, energy consumption, resource consumption, the
  use and generation of hazardous substances, or the generation  of  waste
  or pollution.